[Footnote 61: Here, from Schiller Senior himself
(_Autobiography_, called "_Curriculum Vitae_," in
_Beziehungen_, pp. 15-18), is a List of his six
Children;--the two that died so young we have marked in
italics:

1. 'ELISABETH CHRISTOPHINE FRIEDERICKE, born 4 September
1757, at Marbach.

2. 'JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH, born 10 November 1759, at
Marbach.

3. 'LUISE DOROTHEA KATHARINA, born 24 January 1766, at Lorch.

4. '_Maria Charlotte, born 20 November 1768, at Ludwigsburg:
died 29 March 1774; age 5 gone._

5. '_Beata Friedericke, born 4 May 1773, at Ludwigsburg: died
22 December, same year._

6. 'CAROLINE CHRISTIANE, born 8 September 1777, at
Solituede;'--(this is she they call, in fond diminutive,
_Nane_ or _Nanette_.)]

Till Schiller's flight, in which what endless interest and industries
Christophine had we have already seen, the young girls,--Christophine
25, Luise 16, Nanette a rosy little creature of 5,--had known no
misfortune; nor, except Christophine's feelings on the death of the
two little Sisters, years ago, no heavy sorrow. At Solituede, but for
the general cloud of anxiety and grief about their loved and gifted
Brother and his exile, their lives were of the peaceablest
description: diligence in household business, sewing, spinning,
contented punctuality in all things; in leisure hours eager reading
(or at times, on Christophine's part, drawing and painting, in which
she attained considerable excellence), and, as choicest recreation,
walks amid the flourishing Nurseries, Tree-avenues, and fine solid
industries and forest achievements of Papa. Mention is made of a
Cavalry Regiment stationed at Solituede; the young officers of which,
without society in that dull place, and with no employment except
parade, were considerably awake to the comely Jungfers Schiller and
their promenadings in those pleasant woods: one Lieutenant of them
(afterwards a Colonel, 'Obrist von Miller of Stuttgart') is said to
have manifested honourable aspirations and intentions towards
Christophine,--which, however, and all connection with whom or his
comrades, the rigorously prudent Father strictly forbade; his piously
obedient Daughters, Christophine it is rather thought with some
regret, immediately conforming. A Portrait of this Von Miller, painted
by Christophine, still exists, it would appear, among the papers of
the Schillers.[62]

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