Yay, thanks for the write-up. I continue to love seeing everything from different angles.
(this actually sounds like something I've read in Preuss or Förster's apprendices - also, a Groschen is a penny, so FW is very cheap again)
Yup, I've seen this repeatedly, and I'm pretty sure it's from one of FW's micromanaging Fritz's incarceration letters.
Even kids weren't safe from hearing Fritz' poetry!
LOL. Getting an early start! Doesn't Zeithain have something where Fritz starts reading his poetry to Katte and makes a joke about how one of the downsides of associating with him is you have to listen to his poetry? (Going from memory, the actual line may have been a little different.)
This letter has the story of Fritz making the pages take a spoonful of his morning beverage as well, as the Nicolai letter does, but the Minerva letter names explicitly the "Dresden poisoning", which means yes, it's the one Glasow was accused of.
I figured it was Glasow's! It's good to finally confirm that.
Heinrich: At least none of my boytoys tried to kill me. [mildred's note: That I know of?]
And he adds a PS saying "You haven't written to me what the volume sent to me costs", which makes it sound like this letter is addressed to a bookseller. Which Nicolai Jr. also was, in addition to being a writer. But if Nicolai were the recipient of this second letter as well, he'd have said so, and in his remarks printed later, he clearly treats it as another letter, albeit with nearly identical content.
That's exactly what I thought. Maybe it's just a friend he asked to get a book for him?
Maybe books are code for money? :-P
but smugly adds he's sure Minerva's readers will be glad to reading it again.
Haha, yes, that part made me laugh. He's not wrong! I've seen all this stuff elsewhere, although the bit about Münchow *was* super useful to our ongoing detective work.
little Münchow going back to dresses to smuggle in stuff for Fritz is also there. It seems to be unique to the Minerva letter
Interesting, so Carlyle must have been reading Minerva. See, Nicolai, it's good that they printed this letter, which is not exactly almost identical!
"So, about that operation Zimmermann says Fritz had: obviously, I wasn't present, but Fritz definitely did have sex later than that, from 1739 onwards, which I happen to know because my older brother was one of the people he had it with!"
Either that or "my brother was close enough to him to know who he was getting it on with," yup! That's how I read it too.
Münchow Jr. wasn't a kid anymore when he served as page, and presumably he's indeed able to recall Fritz getting out of bed and upstairs, and not for evening prayers, but somehow I doubt that he went to EC "from 1739 onwards". Of course, with Fritz being a famous insomniac, he could have had any number of reasonf or leaving his bedroom in the middle of the night. Or he did have indeed sex with someone (not EC). Or is Münchow getting creative in order to defend dead Fritz from the charge of a crippled penis?
Yeah, could be any of those. I too am skeptical of him having sex with EC during that period. Münchow, do you know where Fredersdorf's room was in all this? I would like to hear more about that part of the layout. :P
Speaking of this cast of 1790s characters, you mentioned a while back that you were going to check out Nicolai's anecdotes on German Gutenberg--did you ever find the time? If not, we should add that to our list!
Re: Stop the Presses! Münchow vs Zimmermann: It's on!
(this actually sounds like something I've read in Preuss or Förster's apprendices - also, a Groschen is a penny, so FW is very cheap again)
Yup, I've seen this repeatedly, and I'm pretty sure it's from one of FW's micromanaging Fritz's incarceration letters.
Even kids weren't safe from hearing Fritz' poetry!
LOL. Getting an early start! Doesn't Zeithain have something where Fritz starts reading his poetry to Katte and makes a joke about how one of the downsides of associating with him is you have to listen to his poetry? (Going from memory, the actual line may have been a little different.)
This letter has the story of Fritz making the pages take a spoonful of his morning beverage as well, as the Nicolai letter does, but the Minerva letter names explicitly the "Dresden poisoning", which means yes, it's the one Glasow was accused of.
I figured it was Glasow's! It's good to finally confirm that.
Heinrich: At least none of my boytoys tried to kill me. [mildred's note: That I know of?]
And he adds a PS saying "You haven't written to me what the volume sent to me costs", which makes it sound like this letter is addressed to a bookseller. Which Nicolai Jr. also was, in addition to being a writer. But if Nicolai were the recipient of this second letter as well, he'd have said so, and in his remarks printed later, he clearly treats it as another letter, albeit with nearly identical content.
That's exactly what I thought. Maybe it's just a friend he asked to get a book for him?
Maybe books are code for money? :-P
but smugly adds he's sure Minerva's readers will be glad to reading it again.
Haha, yes, that part made me laugh. He's not wrong! I've seen all this stuff elsewhere, although the bit about Münchow *was* super useful to our ongoing detective work.
little Münchow going back to dresses to smuggle in stuff for Fritz is also there. It seems to be unique to the Minerva letter
Interesting, so Carlyle must have been reading Minerva. See, Nicolai, it's good that they printed this letter, which is not exactly almost identical!
"So, about that operation Zimmermann says Fritz had: obviously, I wasn't present, but Fritz definitely did have sex later than that, from 1739 onwards, which I happen to know because my older brother was one of the people he had it with!"
Either that or "my brother was close enough to him to know who he was getting it on with," yup! That's how I read it too.
Münchow Jr. wasn't a kid anymore when he served as page, and presumably he's indeed able to recall Fritz getting out of bed and upstairs, and not for evening prayers, but somehow I doubt that he went to EC "from 1739 onwards". Of course, with Fritz being a famous insomniac, he could have had any number of reasonf or leaving his bedroom in the middle of the night. Or he did have indeed sex with someone (not EC). Or is Münchow getting creative in order to defend dead Fritz from the charge of a crippled penis?
Yeah, could be any of those. I too am skeptical of him having sex with EC during that period. Münchow, do you know where Fredersdorf's room was in all this? I would like to hear more about that part of the layout. :P
Speaking of this cast of 1790s characters, you mentioned a while back that you were going to check out Nicolai's anecdotes on German Gutenberg--did you ever find the time? If not, we should add that to our list!