No, I was referring to this guy, but I couldn't find any evidence that he and FW had been in the same place at the same time as children. Whereas your guy was. It was probably your guy. (There were a lot of princes of Courlande.)
Though it does show how highly Fritz thinks of Suhm.
Indeed! Exactly what I was thinking.
I see he also writes to A. about Suhm's death, very touchingly.
He does! I gave the full quote in my Suhm writeup here.
This is Fritz writing to Algarotti on Suhm's death: "I have just learned of Suhm's death, my close friend, who loved me as sincerely as I loved him, and who showed me until his death the confidence he had in my friendship and in my tenderness, of which he was convinced. I would rather have lost millions. We hardly find people who have so much spirit joined with so much candor and feeling. My heart will mourn him, and this in a way deeper than for most relatives. His memory will last as long as a drop of blood flows through my veins, and his family will be mine. Farewell; I cannot speak of anything else; my heart is bleeding, and the pain is too great to think of anything other than this wound."
"Who showed me until his death the confidence he had in my friendship and in my tenderness, of which he was convinced" is true, if you remember he twice on his deathbed or apparent deathbed left his kids to Fritz (once to Crown Prince Fritz, which is much more impressive), and also that he immediately started trying to quit his job as soon as FW died, on the assumption that of *course* he had a place at Fritz's court, where he'd much rather be. (God, the chronology of letters I worked out is so touching and heartbreaking, cynicism about the devil entering one aside.)
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Though it does show how highly Fritz thinks of Suhm.
Indeed! Exactly what I was thinking.
I see he also writes to A. about Suhm's death, very touchingly.
He does! I gave the full quote in my Suhm writeup here.
This is Fritz writing to Algarotti on Suhm's death: "I have just learned of Suhm's death, my close friend, who loved me as sincerely as I loved him, and who showed me until his death the confidence he had in my friendship and in my tenderness, of which he was convinced. I would rather have lost millions. We hardly find people who have so much spirit joined with so much candor and feeling. My heart will mourn him, and this in a way deeper than for most relatives. His memory will last as long as a drop of blood flows through my veins, and his family will be mine. Farewell; I cannot speak of anything else; my heart is bleeding, and the pain is too great to think of anything other than this wound."
"Who showed me until his death the confidence he had in my friendship and in my tenderness, of which he was convinced" is true, if you remember he twice on his deathbed or apparent deathbed left his kids to Fritz (once to Crown Prince Fritz, which is much more impressive), and also that he immediately started trying to quit his job as soon as FW died, on the assumption that of *course* he had a place at Fritz's court, where he'd much rather be. (God, the chronology of letters I worked out is so touching and heartbreaking, cynicism about the devil entering one aside.)