cipher-correspondence

Updated: June 19, 2025

By and by it has got so far, that Friedrich Wilhelm's Ambassador at London maintains a cipher-correspondence with Grumkow; and writes to Friedrich Wilhelm, not what is passing in city or court there, but what Grumkow wishes Friedrich Wilhelm to think is passing. Of insinuations, by assent or contradiction, potent if you know the nature of the beast; of these we need not speak.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05