The love of an uncrowned queen, Sophie Dorothea, consort of George 1., and her correspondence with Philip Christopher, count Königsmarck (now first published from the originals) by . sband, sheat this time said nothing. The only ray of light in hergloom were the visits of her mother, who, despite heradvanced age and increasing infirmities, still came fromWienhausen to see her beloved daughter as often as shewas permitted to do so. She also found relief in herliterary labours ; she was always a graceful and readywriter, and in her later years she cultivated this facultyto her utmost.
The love of an uncrowned queen, Sophie Dorothea, consort of George 1., and her correspondence with Philip Christopher, count Königsmarck (now first published from the originals) by . sband, sheat this time said nothing. The only ray of light in hergloom were the visits of her mother, who, despite heradvanced age and increasing infirmities, still came fromWienhausen to see her beloved daughter as often as shewas permitted to do so. She also found relief in herliterary labours ; she was always a graceful and readywriter, and in her later years she cultivated this facultyto her utmost. She wrote her memoirs in the hope thatthey would be permitted to see the light ; but they werenever given to the world, though many spurious imitationshave been foisted on the public. It is believed also thatromance and poetry flowed from her pen ; reams andreams of paper were covered by her handwriting, and boxesand boxes of manuscripts accumulated at Ahlden duringthe long years of her captivity, most of them circlingaround the tale of her own sad lot, and chiefly writtenwith a view to setting herself right with the world. papers were ultimately suppressed, burned, or other-. SOPHIE DOROTHEA, SECOND QUEEN OF PRUSSIA(daughter of SOPHIE DOROTHEA AND GEORGE I.). From thepainti7ig by Johann L. Hirschmann. CROWN AND GRAVE 425 wise destroyed by order of the Hanoverian government,and, save for a few scattered fragments of little value,nothing has been left ; her literary labours were as vainas the labours of Sisyphus. When she first came toAhlden she carried on an extensive correspondence withfriends and acquaintances, but it had gradually thinnedby death. She still, however, wrote and received manyletters, many of them quite openly, some in secret. Ofthe latter, the most important was her correspondencewith her daughter, the Queen of Prussia. Soon after the young marriage the King ofPrussia died, and on her husbands accession she becamethe second Queen of Pru.
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