155.] Answer comes from Klinggraf that same night.

Once more, an Answer almost worse than could have been expected.

"The 'League with Russia against you' is nonextant, a thing of your imagination: Have not we already answered ?" [In _Gesammelte Urkunden, _i.

217: Klinggraf's second question (done by Letter this time), "18th August;" Maria Theresa's Answer, "21st August,"] Whereupon, 2.

FRIEDRICH TO THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA.
POTSDAM, "26th August," 1756.
"MY DEAR BROTHER,--I have already written to the Queen; softening things as much as I could [Letter lost].