Berlin and Sans-Souci

Frederick at home: Voltaire arriving, Voltaire quarrelling, Voltaire leaving; the flute, the greyhounds, the Berlin theatre, the brothers who cannot please him, and the ministers who dare not contradict. Mühlbach was Klara Mundt, who wrote nearly three hundred volumes; here the wars are offstage and the court is the whole subject, which suits her exactly — she is a gossip with archives.