Note 210 — APPENDIX B CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN PRINCESS SOPHIA DOROTHEA AND COUNT KÖNIGSMARCK IN THE ROYAL SECRET ARCHIVES OF STATE AT BERLIN (continued 2)
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The significance of the word carême in this passage is obscure. Its ordinary meaning ‘lent, fasting’ gives no sense. Dr. Braunholtz informs me that the word may also mean ‘a collection of lent-sermons’; but, as he observes, this was not a very likely gift in the circumstances. And a ‘lenten gift’ of any kind seems out of season in September.