Still one of my favorite quotes from Lehndorff :D well, gosh, I have so many, but I mean. That one it is sort of hard to misinterpret. Unless you are, I guess, an editor... I also love it because of the evidence Heinrich wasn't conventionally beautiful :D
Wow, that's... an interesting letter. I mean, not only easily refutable, but unless Sophie and AW were a lot closer than I imagine they were, I don't really see why this friend would bother to say something like that to her? Like, wouldn't Sophie be more interested in it as (unfortunately tragic) gossip about old acquaintances than as something with marked emotional impact? And now we've seen enough adulteration of primary sources that... yeah, I kinda am going with your alternate theory as well.
Re: Lehndorff
Still one of my favorite quotes from Lehndorff :D well, gosh, I have so many, but I mean. That one it is sort of hard to misinterpret. Unless you are, I guess, an editor... I also love it because of the evidence Heinrich wasn't conventionally beautiful :D
Wow, that's... an interesting letter. I mean, not only easily refutable, but unless Sophie and AW were a lot closer than I imagine they were, I don't really see why this friend would bother to say something like that to her? Like, wouldn't Sophie be more interested in it as (unfortunately tragic) gossip about old acquaintances than as something with marked emotional impact? And now we've seen enough adulteration of primary sources that... yeah, I kinda am going with your alternate theory as well.