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the least possible trouble. She especially prayed him 

 not to come should her death occur in the winter ; but 

 the reiterated instructions through the long series of 

 letters show how keen was her anxiety that whatever 

 she possessed of value should pass into his hands, and 

 that no one of her Hanoverian connections, with the 

 exception of Mrs. Knipping [who, with Miss Becke- 

 dorff, was entrusted with her keys], should inter- 

 meddle. She desired to be laid beside her father and 

 mother, and an inscription * of her own composition 

 records how she was her brother's assistant, &c. She 

 was followed to the grave by many relations and 

 friends, the Eoyal carriages forming part of the pro- 

 cession; the coffin was covered with garlands of 

 laurel and cypress and palm branches sent by the 

 Crown Princess from Herrnhausen, and the holy 

 words spoken over it were uttered in that same 

 garrison church in which, nearly a century before, she 

 had been christened, and afterwards confirmed. One 

 direction she could not put on paper, but she desired 

 Mrs. Knipping to place in her coffin a lock of her 

 beloved brother's hair and an old, almost obliterated,, 

 almanack that had been used by her father. 



* The inscription is given in the Appendix. 



