1) Eklektische_Monatsschrift1785, a 1785 publication in which some of the documents pertaining to Katte's execution were published. There are the last letters from Katte that we're familiar with, of course, but also Schack and Müller write-ups, which Fontane selected from, but non-comprehensively, and a couple other things. I would be curious if our reader could tell us if there's anything new and interesting, or if we know everything. There's also an inscription by Katte on November 5 in a book that he was bequeathing to a friend, which I have seen before, but not the full text. You can actually view an excerpt in Hans Hermann's handwriting here, in case you're curious what his handwriting looked like.
2) Thanks to Blanning actually giving me the *name* of the 1752 anonymous pamphlet and not just saying "1752 anonymous pamphlet almost certainly by Voltaire," I managed to get a copy of that as well, *finally*. It's in French, of course, and I've only skimmed, but what jumped out at me was that Heinrich is "aimable, poli, genereux," (also a Potsdamite aka sodomite, of course) but AW is just like Fritz, and his rule, if he succeeds Fritz, will be just as despotic and militaristic. ??? I don't *think* it's my French that's the problem here?
Anyway, that's up now, as VoltairePamphlet, if anyone wants to struggle through the French. I probably will at some point.
3) I put up a volume by Raumer, who's got the perspective on 1730-1740 events of the English and French archives (in German translation, sigh), starting on page 491. Dickens' report on Katte's execution is on page 546. I see that, while it varies slightly from Johnn's (especially the last words), he's also got Katte pulling his cap over his eyes with one hand while he threw Fritz a kiss with the other. It's dated to the same day as Johnn's, November 11, so it's kind of interesting that they've got very different last words already. ("There's no need to [apologize]" vs. "If I had ten lives, I would give them all up so that you could be reconciled with your father.")
4) Zimmermann, Fritz's physician of the "TOTALLY HET Fritz had an operation on his penis" claims, where chapter 3 is his take on Fritz's sexuality and supposedly (according to Blanning) contains evidence that Fritz was sexually active into the 1750s. Gossipy sensationalists need to know with whom, according to whom!
Finally, if all goes well, in a few days when my scanner arrives, the Royal Reader should have another interesting volume of German primary sources on Fritz and MT. :D
Oh, as always, let me know if I did something silly like upload the volumes to the wrong place yet again.
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Date: 2020-02-20 08:50 am (UTC)2) Thanks to Blanning actually giving me the *name* of the 1752 anonymous pamphlet and not just saying "1752 anonymous pamphlet almost certainly by Voltaire," I managed to get a copy of that as well, *finally*. It's in French, of course, and I've only skimmed, but what jumped out at me was that Heinrich is "aimable, poli, genereux," (also a Potsdamite aka sodomite, of course) but AW is just like Fritz, and his rule, if he succeeds Fritz, will be just as despotic and militaristic. ??? I don't *think* it's my French that's the problem here?
Anyway, that's up now, as VoltairePamphlet, if anyone wants to struggle through the French. I probably will at some point.
3) I put up a volume by Raumer, who's got the perspective on 1730-1740 events of the English and French archives (in German translation, sigh), starting on page 491. Dickens' report on Katte's execution is on page 546. I see that, while it varies slightly from Johnn's (especially the last words), he's also got Katte pulling his cap over his eyes with one hand while he threw Fritz a kiss with the other. It's dated to the same day as Johnn's, November 11, so it's kind of interesting that they've got very different last words already. ("There's no need to [apologize]" vs. "If I had ten lives, I would give them all up so that you could be reconciled with your father.")
4) Zimmermann, Fritz's physician of the "TOTALLY HET Fritz had an operation on his penis" claims, where chapter 3 is his take on Fritz's sexuality and supposedly (according to Blanning) contains evidence that Fritz was sexually active into the 1750s. Gossipy sensationalists need to know with whom, according to whom!
Finally, if all goes well, in a few days when my scanner arrives, the Royal Reader should have another interesting volume of German primary sources on Fritz and MT. :D
Oh, as always, let me know if I did something silly like upload the volumes to the wrong place yet again.