Wait, didn't Fritz spent parts of basically every December/January after his marriage in Berlin/with his family? That's what I thought at least.
For example, he was in Berlin in December 1737 as well, writing this to Camas: It is believed that the King will come on Monday to honor his capital with his presence. Time will develop the events that we have to wait for. It is assured that he will come as a beneficent divinity, to spread everywhere his benign influences. Others maintain that it will be blazing Jupiter, armed with thunders. For myself, I wait for everything with admirable composure, not foreseeing what I have to fear, especially since I feel clean and undefiled. I hope to do better in this campaign than Seckendorff, and to get back to my sheep next month.
And then the next letter from Potsdam in January: I have been here for three days awaiting a fit of repentance, holiness, credulity, etc., which I hope will pass before Monday; that dispatched, I plan to leave by Tuesday or Wednesday. I was treated very gently, but the devil loses nothing; you know the spirit of the court, and that is enough to judge it.
Re: Camas Letters I - Colonel Camas (1734-1740)
For example, he was in Berlin in December 1737 as well, writing this to Camas: It is believed that the King will come on Monday to honor his capital with his presence. Time will develop the events that we have to wait for. It is assured that he will come as a beneficent divinity, to spread everywhere his benign influences. Others maintain that it will be blazing Jupiter, armed with thunders. For myself, I wait for everything with admirable composure, not foreseeing what I have to fear, especially since I feel clean and undefiled. I hope to do better in this campaign than Seckendorff, and to get back to my sheep next month.
And then the next letter from Potsdam in January: I have been here for three days awaiting a fit of repentance, holiness, credulity, etc., which I hope will pass before Monday; that dispatched, I plan to leave by Tuesday or Wednesday. I was treated very gently, but the devil loses nothing; you know the spirit of the court, and that is enough to judge it.