This is so awesome! As I said to selenak below, the addition of a third data point, this early, makes the 1753 bequest to a Lt. Col. von Keith and the 1753/4 takeover of the Tiergarten responsibilities by a Lt. Col. von Keith into something that's not a coincidence of Keiths as far as I'm concerned!
Also, now we have at least tentative dates (and reasons!) for Peter's Charlottenburg and Tiergarten responsibilities, and a date for the Jägerhof move!
This is nearly completing my longstanding wishlist for Peter's chronology! The only thing I wish we had now was firmer evidence for the same. And more deets on his kids and their actual first names, omg. The most reliable source I can find says Carl Ernst Reinhard for Envoy Son, and 1743-11-29 for his birth date, so I'm leaning toward that, but I wish I didn't have three different sets of first names for him. (Also, if that's true, then Friedrich Ludwig was likely the name of the second son, not the elder as I'd guessed, unless Ariane got pregnant on (or before :P) her wedding night and also within a month after giving birth the first time, and then never again (not that I would blame her after that!))
In the preface, Raumer says he collected information from books and handwritten sources and he does quote a couple of cabinet orders from Fritz to Schwerin verbatim for example, so he must indeed have had access to something. But 1840 is where this train stops so far.
If this is the same Raumer as the one who published all the envoy reports around the marriage intrigues, then he's probably pretty reliable, but I do still wish we had his sources.
But! We have dates where we didn't have them before, and I'm going to incorporate them into Rheinsberg! (Someday, omg.)
Re: Manger, Knobelsdorff - and Peter Keith!
Also, now we have at least tentative dates (and reasons!) for Peter's Charlottenburg and Tiergarten responsibilities, and a date for the Jägerhof move!
This is nearly completing my longstanding wishlist for Peter's chronology! The only thing I wish we had now was firmer evidence for the same. And more deets on his kids and their actual first names, omg. The most reliable source I can find says Carl Ernst Reinhard for Envoy Son, and 1743-11-29 for his birth date, so I'm leaning toward that, but I wish I didn't have three different sets of first names for him. (Also, if that's true, then Friedrich Ludwig was likely the name of the second son, not the elder as I'd guessed, unless Ariane got pregnant on (or before :P) her wedding night and also within a month after giving birth the first time, and then never again (not that I would blame her after that!))
In the preface, Raumer says he collected information from books and handwritten sources and he does quote a couple of cabinet orders from Fritz to Schwerin verbatim for example, so he must indeed have had access to something. But 1840 is where this train stops so far.
If this is the same Raumer as the one who published all the envoy reports around the marriage intrigues, then he's probably pretty reliable, but I do still wish we had his sources.
But! We have dates where we didn't have them before, and I'm going to incorporate them into Rheinsberg! (Someday, omg.)