Alas no. Heinrich is only mentioned along with James Keith as one of Algarotti's non-Fritz dedicatees from his Prussian era in the preface - as part of the larger point of him knowing everyone - , and they don't even provide a footnote to say which works were dedicated to whom. (The dedication of the second edition of *I'll have to look it up* to Fritz is mentioned in the essay about their correspondance, though.)
Oh, and the correspondance essay gave me one little important gem I forgot to mention: with the beginning of the 7 Years War, Fritz switches his usual ending of his letters to Algarotti - and various other people - to "En ceci je prie Dieu qu'il vous ait en sa sainte et digne garde". Previously, I had assumed this was a result of him having to be the defender of the Protestant faith, or somthing like that. Not really, though not unrelated. This precise phrase was the way Henri IV of France, Henri de Navarre, Henri Quatre, aka Most Admired Of All French Kings ended his letters, and to be even more precise, Fritz knew that because Voltaire had used this fact in his epic about Henri IV., the Henriad. So he was making both a literary allusion and a historical comparison (that still cast his opponents as the bigotted Catholic league fighting against Henri IV, never mind that neither Russia nor Sweden were Catholic powers), which his correspondants, and especially a correspondant like Algarotti, were bound to understand at once.
Dating of Algarotti's letters: there's one more factor, also mentioned in the essay. Both Russia and England were still using the Julian calendar at this point. While Algarotti, as an Italian and continental European, most of the time uses the Gregorian calendar as a matter of course in his letters, he might not have done so when writing from Russia to a Brit. Then again, since he was recreating these letters anyway, he might have simply misdated.
I notice both Lady Mary and Voltaire wanted theirs released posthumously, though for very, very different reasons. ;)
Hervey: I wanted mine released posthumously, too, preferably when the love rat has just been crowned, for maximum embarrassment. How was I to know he'd die just a few years after me, and that Grandson would censor my precious manuscript? Voltaire, at least your niece didn't do that but gave posterity the full version.
Re: All About Algarotti
Alas no. Heinrich is only mentioned along with James Keith as one of Algarotti's non-Fritz dedicatees from his Prussian era in the preface - as part of the larger point of him knowing everyone - , and they don't even provide a footnote to say which works were dedicated to whom. (The dedication of the second edition of *I'll have to look it up* to Fritz is mentioned in the essay about their correspondance, though.)
Oh, and the correspondance essay gave me one little important gem I forgot to mention: with the beginning of the 7 Years War, Fritz switches his usual ending of his letters to Algarotti - and various other people - to "En ceci je prie Dieu qu'il vous ait en sa sainte et digne garde". Previously, I had assumed this was a result of him having to be the defender of the Protestant faith, or somthing like that. Not really, though not unrelated. This precise phrase was the way Henri IV of France, Henri de Navarre, Henri Quatre, aka Most Admired Of All French Kings ended his letters, and to be even more precise, Fritz knew that because Voltaire had used this fact in his epic about Henri IV., the Henriad. So he was making both a literary allusion and a historical comparison (that still cast his opponents as the bigotted Catholic league fighting against Henri IV, never mind that neither Russia nor Sweden were Catholic powers), which his correspondants, and especially a correspondant like Algarotti, were bound to understand at once.
Dating of Algarotti's letters: there's one more factor, also mentioned in the essay. Both Russia and England were still using the Julian calendar at this point. While Algarotti, as an Italian and continental European, most of the time uses the Gregorian calendar as a matter of course in his letters, he might not have done so when writing from Russia to a Brit. Then again, since he was recreating these letters anyway, he might have simply misdated.
I notice both Lady Mary and Voltaire wanted theirs released posthumously, though for very, very different reasons. ;)
Hervey: I wanted mine released posthumously, too, preferably when the love rat has just been crowned, for maximum embarrassment. How was I to know he'd die just a few years after me, and that Grandson would censor my precious manuscript? Voltaire, at least your niece didn't do that but gave posterity the full version.