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

[mildred_of_midgard]

Good question! Dutch Wikipedia says there are more than 25,000 letters to and from her (including correspondents like Fritz, Voltaire, and Lafayette) that have been digitized and "will" be made available online in 2017.

Okay, here they are. Ugh, the originals have been scanned. I mean, that's great, but that doesn't help us much. There does appear to be at least a partial diary and other documents pertaining to her Grand Tour. And poems, and reflections, and documents pertaining to her numismatic studies, and news items ("Charlotte Sophie was strongly involved in current political and military developments, ordering news reports, newspapers and periodicals from all over Europe"), and financial documents, and instructions to her staff, and inventories of her household goods, and basically a treasure trove, all scanned in a format inaccessible to us, although I'm sure wonderful for proper 18C scholars.

Oh, well. She seems fascinating. If I turn up translations or even translatable transcriptions of any of these, I will pass them on.

(if lacking in gaydar)

Hey, she knew enough to dress up as a man on Mission: Seduce Heinrich. Her gaydar is functioning better than FW's! (Which, as you pointed out, seems to be largely a well-functioning subconscious gaydar from the land of De Nile).