MARIE-CLOTILDE DE FRANCE (1759-1802) Queen of Sardinia; sister of Louis XVI. 4 L.A.S., Turin 1784-1785, to Baroness de Benkendorff in Petersburg; 5pages in-8, addresses, tears from broken seal without loss of text. Friendly letters in which she expresses her feelings for her "chere Fille" as well as for the "adorable Grande Duchesse" [the future tsarina Maria Fedorovna]. She recalls the winter cold (February 19, 1784), her friend's childbirth, her and her husband's cold (March 10, 1785), "the irreparable loss I have made" (Moncalieri November 26, 1785), and motherhood again: "I wish you from the bottom of my heart all the happiness you can wish for, and above all a very good and happy childbirth, I hope it will not be long before I receive this good news, which will be followed by that of the birth of our adorable Grand-Duchess, I am delighted that your pregnancies are so well arranged this time-cy, that you will be in a position to look after her and give me news of her"... (December 16, 1785). Attached are 3 L.A. from Baron Carl Friedrich von Schilling to his daughter Anna Juliana de Benkendorff, Jassi 1789 and n.d., speaking of the Grand Duchess, Prince Basil Dolgorouki, Prince Charles, military operations (4p. in-4 and 7 p. in-8); plus one from Caroline Gaefertsheim née Schilling to her aunt Benkendorff, Anspach January 11, 1797 (4p. in-8).