Frederick the Great, discussion post 6

[cahn]

...I think we need another one (seriously, you guys, this is THE BEST) and I'd better make it now before I disappear into the wilds of music performance.

(also, as of this week there are two Frederician fics in the yuletide archive and eeeeeeeeeee)
(huh, only one of them is actually tagged with Frederick the Great even though two with Maria Theresia and Wilhelmine, eeeeeee this is awesome I CAN'T WAIT)

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Re: Fredersdorf letters

[selenak]

In conclusion, I agree completely. That is also my picture of the Fritz/Fredersdorf relationship.

As I don't have a Pepper Potts Icon, I shall have to honor our agreement with a Tony Stark icon.

Incidentally, re: Keyserling's orphaned baby daughter (called Adelaide), according to Editor, Fritz was the godfather, not just nominally but he held her while she was baptized (so I guess Caesarion was the cause for at least one church visit? Not what FW had in mind, but hey), and he really took that relationship seriously.

(Another baby held by Fritz in order to get baptized, standing in for the actual far away godfather that time: Heinrich. Yes, really. Wilhelmine had held baby AW four years earlier.)

Do we know if he does?

Fritz doesn't adress that question in his reply letter at all, which is mostly about the salaries for singers Astrua (female) and Salimbeni (male and one of the most famous castrato singers in Europe at the time). The subsequent letters don't directly adress this, either, though Fritz says "50 or 60 people, I don't care" re: the ball in Charlottenburg, he's more interested Federsdorf negotiating the singer salaries down somewhat.

ETA: It just occured to me: when Lehndorff says that EC is "arrogant towards those lower than her, but submissive towards anyone close to the King", he probably means "she bosses me around as if she was my boss, and me a nobleman, too, while she's "humbly" asking Fredersdorf the commoner to intercede for her with the King when she wants something!" /end of ETA

Zomg, can you give me the number of this letter? I need to see this with my own eyes.

The letter, No. 102, starts at the bottom of page 185, and is dated February 22nd 1752. The passage I just quoted is from page 186.

Re: Fredersdorf letters

[mildred_of_midgard]

The letter, No. 102, starts at the bottom of page 185, and is dated February 22nd 1752. The passage I just quoted is from page 186.

ZOMG, 7 exclamation points in the letter. ROFL. This is one stressed out father figure BFF. <33

Thank you so much for this, as always.