So while searching for references to Dubourgay in MacDonogh, who does a *very* detailed account of the years of English marriage negotiations, I found his source: Oncken 1894-1895, who wrote an account called "Sir Charles und Friedrich Wilhelm I im Jahre 1730." He's apparently one of those 19th century scholars who decided to go through the archives (of Vienna and London in this case) and publish previously unpublished documents. It seems to be an article incorporating passage after passage from various letters and possibly envoy reports, helpfully translated into German. I see the occasional brief quote in English, but we can all handle that. ;)
I had to download every page individually, because argh Hathitrust and Royal Patron is busy, but it was only 67 pages, so I did. It's now in the library. I suspect that there will be stuff new to us (lots of mentions of Dubourgay!), and even if none of the new stuff is interesting (and it may well be), it will be helpful to know the sources for claims we've encountered in secondary sources.
Let me know if I missed any pages or got them out of order, because the process was a little error prone and it's easy to fix, but be aware that the article was a two-parter published in two subsequent volumes of a journal, so there will be a page number jump right at the start of the second article, which is clearly signaled.
English marriage intrigues
Date: 2021-03-14 07:21 pm (UTC)I had to download every page individually, because argh Hathitrust and Royal Patron is busy, but it was only 67 pages, so I did. It's now in the library. I suspect that there will be stuff new to us (lots of mentions of Dubourgay!), and even if none of the new stuff is interesting (and it may well be), it will be helpful to know the sources for claims we've encountered in secondary sources.
Let me know if I missed any pages or got them out of order, because the process was a little error prone and it's easy to fix, but be aware that the article was a two-parter published in two subsequent volumes of a journal, so there will be a page number jump right at the start of the second article, which is clearly signaled.