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Re: Asprey 2

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard 2020-02-26 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Friedrich never names either Orzelska or Wreech - he only refers ambiguously to "a kind person".

Ah, thank you! (Had missed that in my Blanning reread, somehow. Or at least I assume it's in the part I've already reread.)

Mildred may be getting mixed up with a different letter that Friedrich wrote to Voltaire where he mentions Polish Countess Crazinska...? Written on the 20th of February 1767:

I had seen at least part of this quote, I think, but I wasn't confusing it: I was remembering [personal profile] selenak remembering that Spiegel article, which positively identifies it as Orzelska.

Well, then! Thank goodness for our latest salon member. :)

I look forward to whatever you have to say about Asprey! I've only read the first bit, plus a page here and there as chronic pain permitted before I digitized it. (I haven't been able to read physical books for almost 4 years now, am now giving up and digitizing my library as of a couple days ago.)