Frederick the Great discussion post 12

[cahn]

Every time I am amazed and enchanted that this is still going on! Truly DW is the Earthly Paradise!

All the good stuff continues to be archived at rheinsberg :)

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Re: Lucchessini, Catt and Fredersdorf, oh, my

[mildred_of_midgard]

Literally none. Fritz' correspondence on E-Enlightenment is not comprehensive at all. Right now, it is mostly focused around Voltaire

Ah, okay, didn't realize it was so Voltaire-focused.

have had all spelling and grammar corrected (aka all of Preuss)

You know, I should have guessed this. It's too regular. Well, thanks, I guess, Preuss? On principle, I prefer diplomatic editions, but seeing as how we're relying on Google translate, silent corrections have probably been a godsend.

I do wish there was a bit of funding or interest to go through and digitize at least the correspondence to and between his siblings.

So say we all!

I could have sworn that I read in a biography or something that after Fredersdorf died, Friedrich sent a letter to his widow asking for their correspondence to be returned. His widow returned most of the letters, which were burned, but secretly kept some for herself, which now survive in the archives. I can't remember where that information comes from or if it's accurate? Any ideas?

Yep, that came up in our discussion here!

We've obtained the Richter correspondence from 1926, which was "lightly censored", and an additional letter in Burchardt, and that's all. Too bad E-Enlightenment doesn't have more.

Maybe there's more correspondence in here? Or not?

I've actually been meaning to ask selenak to check that out and tell us whether it's any good or not. It's at Stabi. The only reason I haven't asked is that I've been requesting she read about 1000 books per day, so I have this backlog of things I haven't requested yet. ;) But might as well do it now! selenak, there's this 2016 book on Fritz and Fredersdorf that may be terrible or gold or consist only of things we already know, only one way to find out!

Next question for your gracious self, gambitten: does E-Enlightenment have the complete Lady Mary Wortley Montagu correspondence as recently published in 3 volumes?

Re: Lucchessini, Catt and Fredersdorf, oh, my

[gambitten]

does E-Enlightenment have the complete Lady Mary Wortley Montagu correspondence as recently published in 3 volumes?

It does not - it has about 20 letters from her. You can find her complete correspondence on Oxford Scholarly Editions Online here. Well, to be more exact, here. I can access it! Are there any particular letters you're interested in?

Re: Lucchessini, Catt and Fredersdorf, oh, my

[mildred_of_midgard]

Sigh. That makes E-Enlightenment less interesting to me. So that's good to know.

Thank you kindly for your offer, but sadly, I don't have particular letters in mind (I've already scanned the Algarotti ones), and was just hoping to be able to read, because from what I saw when skimming through the volumes at the time I had them checked out (for Algarotti), she looked pretty interesting. But alas, it looks like I'm waiting until I can spend $150 on physical copies and then scan them so I can read them.