Aw, thank you, and also, LOL re: the Fritz-to-Suhm quote. (Bronisch would eagerly add that sure, he may write that to Suhm in July, but he's already written to Manteuffel in April "moi, qui suis votre disciple".) You could add the entire first letter to Voltaire who is but the latest Socrates candidate, after all. This being said, Voltaire is far away, and Suhm is a) also not often around, and b) a low-key personality, whom nobody could suspect of dominating Fritz. Manteuffel isn't a bulldozer personality, not even when hanging out with FW and certainly not when he hangs out with Fritz, but he is, as ex-cabinet minister of Saxony, more of a political weight even if you don't know/assume he's still in contact with the current Saxon PTB, and he's actively compaigning for Wolff and involving himself in big scholarly/philosophical debates of the day. (When Suhm tranlates Wolff for Fritz, it's at Fritz' request. Suhm doesn't undertake public campaigns for Wolff.) Taking Suhm as a teacher/philophical guide is a private (in as much as it can be for a prince) affair; taking someone like Manteuffel is a public one. (Even before the indiscretion with the painting.) And Fritz has issues with authority and anyone being seen as pulling his strings which surely don't just break out in 1740, especially since Dad is still around grumbling he just knows Fritz will ruin the kingdom when he takes over and be run by his mistresses and favourites. So I can see Fritz minding the old Dessauer's dig. Not as a sole reason to break things off, absolutely not, but as one of several factors.