She really is a treasure :D I wonder if she's going to edit them all? (How many more of them are there?)
That's pretty much it as far as still existant manuscripts are concerned if the Leipzig archive index is anything to go by, plus some "diary notes on lose papers" for 1785. What I wish she'd translate and edit are Heinrich's and Ferdinand's letters to Lehndorff. Since they're all contained in one subsection, among with other people's letters, I take it that of the ca. 800 letters by Heinrich to Lehndorff which Schmidt-Lödtzen talks about in his 1907 preface as being in the family archive, not that many are left, sadly, but still, apparantly some survived 1945!
Lehndorff being gracious about Crown Prince Jr. interrupting his evening a deux with Heinrich: if you want to be cynical in a Fritzian way, of course this is the future King we're talking about, but at this point Lehndorff has long buried any career ambitions and is retired, so I do believe it's just that he's fond of young FW2, both because it's AW's kid and for the man's (no longer a boy at this point but a man of 30) own sake. His diary is pretty consistent about this from the first time kid FW shows up in it.
To carry such a grudge for twentyfour years is incomprehensible to me.
I can totally see that it's incomprehensible to him, he's so nice <3
Various family members of the du Rosey clan and the Katte clan: Ahem. Ahem. Self: Look, Lehndorff presumably was nice to you as well if he had to interact with you. He just writes about his immortal grudge re: his One Who Got Away being married to Ludolf v. Katte in his diaries.
Oh no! Truly it sucked to be a woman in the 18th C. :(
Yup. To the point that I'm surprised so many survived childbirth at all. When the Duc de Croy notes about Marie Antoinette finally (after the seven years delay WHICH WAS NOT HER FAULT) giving birth to her first child, he writes that the Queen had to be bled five times during birth, and otherwise would have died. Meanwhile, I'm thinking: childbirth and five openings of the veins, wtf? Good thing MA inherited MT's iron consitution, I guess. Alas, poor young Frau von Tauentzien had no such natural defense.
Re: The Lehndorff Report: 1783
That's pretty much it as far as still existant manuscripts are concerned if the Leipzig archive index is anything to go by, plus some "diary notes on lose papers" for 1785. What I wish she'd translate and edit are Heinrich's and Ferdinand's letters to Lehndorff. Since they're all contained in one subsection, among with other people's letters, I take it that of the ca. 800 letters by Heinrich to Lehndorff which Schmidt-Lödtzen talks about in his 1907 preface as being in the family archive, not that many are left, sadly, but still, apparantly some survived 1945!
Lehndorff being gracious about Crown Prince Jr. interrupting his evening a deux with Heinrich: if you want to be cynical in a Fritzian way, of course this is the future King we're talking about, but at this point Lehndorff has long buried any career ambitions and is retired, so I do believe it's just that he's fond of young FW2, both because it's AW's kid and for the man's (no longer a boy at this point but a man of 30) own sake. His diary is pretty consistent about this from the first time kid FW shows up in it.
To carry such a grudge for twentyfour years is incomprehensible to me.
I can totally see that it's incomprehensible to him, he's so nice <3
Various family members of the du Rosey clan and the Katte clan: Ahem. Ahem.
Self: Look, Lehndorff presumably was nice to you as well if he had to interact with you. He just writes about his immortal grudge re: his One Who Got Away being married to Ludolf v. Katte in his diaries.
Oh no! Truly it sucked to be a woman in the 18th C. :(
Yup. To the point that I'm surprised so many survived childbirth at all. When the Duc de Croy notes about Marie Antoinette finally (after the seven years delay WHICH WAS NOT HER FAULT) giving birth to her first child, he writes that the Queen had to be bled five times during birth, and otherwise would have died. Meanwhile, I'm thinking: childbirth and five openings of the veins, wtf? Good thing MA inherited MT's iron consitution, I guess. Alas, poor young Frau von Tauentzien had no such natural defense.