NAUNDORFF Karl-Wilhelm (1785-1845)

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NAUNDORFF Karl-Wilhelm (1785-1845)
Famous character claiming to be the dolphin Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, who survived his detention in the Temple prison. Rare and interesting unsigned autograph letter, The Hague, June 23, 1845, addressed to his daughter, Amélie Naundorff, also known as Princess Amélie de Bourbon (1819-1891), 1 page ½, folio, with a wax stamp on the reverse, text in Dutch. An old French translation is attached. Folds, freckles. See illustration on page 18. Translation: "My dear Amélie, all your letters have arrived in the land of ?mission. I haven't answered them so far, because I thought I could send Mr. Bear to Babylonia any day now to free you from imprisonment. It will become anyway, only I can't set the exact date. My business is going well, and before I leave the city of Jerusalem from where I am writing this letter to you, everything will be favorably finished: yet be patient. The Hague is a true Jerusalem, and Delft, an hour from here, where we shall live in the future, is a very pleasant city, surrounded by very pretty alleys and dug with many canals. In this city, I can have a nice house with a beautiful garden; if possible, your good mother will make it her own. But don't sell the bearskin yet. If I can, you will get it. In this garden there is also a very nice park. It would be my last wish to the almighty, to be able to leave you this completed with a small but safe pension; only in this case I could await with tranquillity my future destiny. If this is the will of the good Father of the Universe, it is of my power and not the means that by force I possess. This house, garden, and park, with an annual sale of twelve thousand florins, is the price at which I have given up my freedom; truly, I have no repentance for it; above all, leaving me in this way the Almighty Master of the Universe, the most brilliant paths open to do much good also to this poor, very poor humanity. I would be by everything and I would be nowhere,
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