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mildred_of_midgard ([personal profile] mildred_of_midgard) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2020-05-04 07:23 am (UTC)

Re: Memoirs, Defenses and Glasow, Oh My!

I thiiiink I have the right Kalckreuth and the wrong Henckel. I'm looking at page 473 in the Heinrich volume, and I see Ziebura listing the Henckel son and grandson. I did deduce that it wasn't the "letters to my grandparents" guy, so I went for the other one. Did not occur to me that she wouldn't list the one that she said was the most important source for the Seven Years' War. Not sure what's going on here.

About Kalckreuth, I'm slightly confused. Ziebura has "Kalckreuth, Graf Friedrich Adolf von, Erinnerungen des Generalfeldmarschalls Grafen v. Kalckreuth. 1-4. Separatabdrucke um 1870 aus Minerva. "Paroles" du Feldmaréchal Kalckreuth. Paris 1841."

In contrast, Duffy has "Kalkreuth, F.A. (1839–40), 'Kalkreuth zu seinen Leben und zu seiner Zeit…Erinnerungen des General-Feldmarschalls Grafen von Kalkreuth', Minerva, (1839) IV, (1840) II–IV, Dresden."

I found Duffy's in the 1839-1840 volumes of Minerva in Hathitrust, except for the (1840) III, which was in the Munich Stabi, along with all the other 1840 volumes. I assumed the (1839) IV was there as well. The table of contents listed years like 1757, 1758, 1759, and battles like Zorndorf and Hochkirch, under the Kalkreuth entries, so I concluded it was our guy. I admittedly did not find the 1870 work Ziebura referred to, but since both Ziebura and Duffy both referred to a 4-part work, I guessed that in 1870 someone made a single-volume reprint of the 1839-1840 Minerva installments, and we were all referring to the same thing.

I did not look for the 1841 "Paroles", because French.

I'll work on getting the 1839-1840 Erinnerungen into the library, so you can tell me if it's the same thing you're looking at. Unless you can already tell me that it's not.

I don't *think* I found any living movie directors. ;)

Lehndorff: I did actually remember to check volume 2! :D What I didn't do was read each entry in both volumes thoroughly, because German and blackletter font. I saw January 5 (volume 2) and January 11 (volume 1), and what looked like a hint that Heinrich still wasn't home in the latter part of December, but nothing confirming their presence in super late December. (Again, very superficial skimming.) Anyway, I was hoping they came home for Christmas, but if Ziebura is right about 10 days, and I'm not finding evidence for Christmas in Lehndorff, I guess not. However, before I write any fic, which will presumably be after my German is a bit better, I will actually look at the relevant entries more closely. And then decide what to do in fiction.

Glasow: wow! I don't know what to believe, but I can see where if different-bodies-one-soul sister gets angry letters for lunch with MT during wartime, mere valet might get locked up for Saxon chocolate during wartime! Fritz is going to be hypervigilant around any Saxon sympathies in 1757, that's for sure.

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