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(Baroness Philippine Auguste Amalie, writer, married Lt. Col. Claus Friedrich von Reden, daughter of Baron Adolph Knigge, German writer and translator, 1752-96, 1775-1841) 5 Autograph Letters (1 incomplete, 4 signed "Philippine Knigge", "Philippine K" & "PK") to Monsieur le Comte de Harcourt, in French with passages in German and English, 19pp., 8vo, Reichensachsen [Hesse] & Hanover, 26th July - 17th October 1796, conversational letters written in the year of her father's death and describing her visit to Hanover, "we were well received by Auguste Grote, but the journey was sad as the sky cried with my mother, but is happy here, though it is a bit dull as the guards are stationed at Bremen", and she misses several of the officers, especially Prince Adolphus (Adolphus, first duke of Cambridge, viceroy of Hanover, army officer, seventh son of George III, 1774-1850), and asking advice about an offer of marriage that she feels has placed her in a painful position, "If you think that a marriage without love, without friendship and with interest and the desire to escape maternal authority for its only incitement, may in time be happy, I will submit patiently to my fate and endeavour to be contented with the lot heaven and you have assigned me", folds, browned.