to be the carrier of tittle-tattle would be the beau ideal of a diplomatist
HEE.
if he wanted wits, Fritz had Voltaire, he didn't need a small scale wit like Hanbury Williams.
Lol! Well, it's true...
So at a guess, Peter would have been perceived by contrast by Villiers (and possibly Mitchell) as someone who wasn't just England-friendly but actually familiar with enough with the place to send reliable reports home to Prussia instead of talking rubbish and flattery a la Lentulus.
Re: Peter Keith - Villiers
to be the carrier of tittle-tattle would be the beau ideal of a diplomatist
HEE.
if he wanted wits, Fritz had Voltaire, he didn't need a small scale wit like Hanbury Williams.
Lol! Well, it's true...
So at a guess, Peter would have been perceived by contrast by Villiers (and possibly Mitchell) as someone who wasn't just England-friendly but actually familiar with enough with the place to send reliable reports home to Prussia instead of talking rubbish and flattery a la Lentulus.
This seems very plausible!