I kind of spent the last 3.5 hours giving Royal Patron stories from our fandom in return for some articles. :D But after I eat, I shall do more Lehndorff!
Oh, and, I do totally intend to read the prefatory material (I promise, Selena!), but I admit I skipped straight to the diaries last night, because I'm so excited about reading Lehndorff, so you should totally do the same, and at some point we will calm down and go back to the prefaces. (Although, it occurs to me you can skim, at least; I have to work for every sentence. :P)
Btw, Royal Patron development: I was telling him about AW, and had to explain who he was. Then later on in the conversation, I referred again to AW, and to check that he understood who I was talking about, Royal Patron said, "The one Fritz treated as the family stud?" and from then on we just called AW the Stud, and we laughed every time. :D
Also, I emailed RP 7 maps during our conversation, and we sat down and went over them together. He's getting an education out of his patronage! (I'm taking him to Sanssouci someday, and, since I do not drive, making him drive me from there to Küstrin and Wust and probably Rheinsberg, we've already agreed on that. :P Although we do not know WHEN, grr.)
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Oh, and, I do totally intend to read the prefatory material (I promise, Selena!), but I admit I skipped straight to the diaries last night, because I'm so excited about reading Lehndorff, so you should totally do the same, and at some point we will calm down and go back to the prefaces. (Although, it occurs to me you can skim, at least; I have to work for every sentence. :P)
Btw, Royal Patron development: I was telling him about AW, and had to explain who he was. Then later on in the conversation, I referred again to AW, and to check that he understood who I was talking about, Royal Patron said, "The one Fritz treated as the family stud?" and from then on we just called AW the Stud, and we laughed every time. :D
Also, I emailed RP 7 maps during our conversation, and we sat down and went over them together. He's getting an education out of his patronage! (I'm taking him to Sanssouci someday, and, since I do not drive, making him drive me from there to Küstrin and Wust and probably Rheinsberg, we've already agreed on that. :P Although we do not know WHEN, grr.)