I took arrangements with General Fouquet [about that long fine-spun Chain of Posts, where we are to do such service ?]--the Black Hussars cannot be here till to-morrow, otherwise I should have marched a day sooner.

My Brother [poor little invalid Ferdinand] charged me to lay him at your feet.

I found him weak and thin, more so than formerly.

Returning hither, the day before yesterday, I passed through Potsdam; I went to Sans-Souci [April 24th, 1760]:--all is green there; the Garden embellished, and seemed to me excellently kept.

Though these details cannot occupy you at present, I thought it would give you pleasure to hear of them for a moment." [Schoning, ii.