With the highest consideration,--My adorable Sister,--Your faithful Brother and Servant, "FRIEDRICH." [_OEuvres de Frederic,_ xxvii.i.

352.] This is Friedrich's last Letter;--his last to a friend.

There is one to his Queen, which Preuss's Index seems to regard as later, though without apparent likelihood; there being no date whatever, and only these words: "Madam,--I am much obliged by the wishes you deign to form: but a heavy fever I have taken (GROSSE FIEVRE QUE J'AI PRISE) hinders me from answering you." [Ib.

xxvi.

62.] On common current matters of business, and even on uncommon, there continue yet for four days to be Letters expressly dictated by Friedrich; some about military matters (vacancies to be filled, new Free-Corps to be levied).