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cahn

...I have nothing clever to say here, just really pleased this is still going :)

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mildred_of_midgard

Just remembered: AW was rather larger than Fritz and Heinrich, was he not? Now I'm imagining them drowning in overlarge shirts!

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selenak

He was! And they must have done! (Fritz to Fredersdorf: If you were here, this would not have happened...because clearly, you'd have brought secret replacement shirts just in case. Heinrich could have drowned in overlarge shirts, of course.)

Incidentally, finding this detail verified I must say my trust in Austrian Trenck's veracity is a bit heightened, at least when he's not denying having plundered churches to MT. :)

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mildred_of_midgard

And to think that when I wrote my fic, we still believed Prussian Trenck had been batman at this battle instead of totally locked up!

Speaking of inaccuracies in fics I've written,

cahn, do you mind if I remove the reference to Katte's last letter from "It, and Katte's last letter, were all he had left of his beloved," in "Counterpoint for Two Flutes", now that we know that Fritz gave the letter to Grumbkow in November 1730 and Grumbkow passed it on to FW as part of the reconciliation process in 1731? That's easier to fix than some other inaccuracies I've written...

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cahn

Oh! No, not at all! Feel free to fix any inaccuracies that you see. (I mean, let me know so I know what's different! :) )

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mildred_of_midgard

Okay, I just removed the reference to the last letter, which I had only put in in the first place to be historically accurate, not realizing that I was actually introducing an inaccuracy! Of course, I didn't realize at the time just how much it wasn't a letter from Katte. I knew it wasn't very comforting, but I hadn't realized it was written as if from FW, and I didn't realize it wasn't even in Katte's handwriting. I can see why Fritz was willing to get rid of it (it really works best as a missive to Grumbkow and FW, indicating that they should be nice to extremely reformed Fritz) so soon, while he clung to the coat (assuming Wilhelmine, our only source, is correct about that).