"Sensible as heart can be to the tender interest you deign to take in what concerns me.

Dear Sister, fear nothing on my score: men are always in the hand of what we call Fate" ("Predestination, GNADENWAHL,"-- Pardon us, Papa!--"CE QU'ON NOMME LE DESTIN); accidents will befall people, walking on the streets, sitting in their room, lying in their bed; and there are many who escape the perils of war....

I think, through Hessen will be the safest route for your Letters, till we see; and not to write just now except on occasions of importance.

Here is a piece in cipher; anonymous,"-- intended for the Newspapers, or some such road.
JULY 5th.

"By a Courier of Plotho's, returning to Regensburg [who passes near you], I write to apprise my dear Sister of the new misery which overwhelms us.