Friedrich writes to Voltaire:-- "I have just been brought to bed of Six Twins; which require to be baptized, in the name of Apollo, in the waters of Hippocrene.

LA HENRIADE is requested to become godmother: you will have the goodness to bring her, this evening at five, to the Father's Apartment.

D'Arget LUCINA will be there; and the Imagination of MAN-A-MACHINE will hold the poor infants over the Font." [Ib.

266.] DEIGN TO SAY IF I HAVE OFFENDED .-- ...

"As they write to me from Paris that I am in disgrace with you, I dare to beg very earnestly that you will deign to say if I have displeased in anything! May go wrong by ignorance or from over-zeal; but with my heart never! I live in the profoundest retreat; giving to study my whole"-- "Your assurances once vouchsafed [famous Document of August 23d].