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mildred_of_midgard ([personal profile] mildred_of_midgard) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2019-11-28 01:58 am (UTC)

Re: Wilhelmine/Fritz letters

Do we know what Wilhelmine died of? I had it in my head that it was tuberculosis (the same as Algarotti), but when I recently went googling for her name and tuberculosis or consumption, I couldn't find anything. It would be consistent with her emaciated appearance and later attempt to get a change of climate in Italy, and I guess it's not impossible that it would take more than ten years to kill her, but...do we know?

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