Conversation about the immortality of the soul: yes, it takes place in August 1736, in front of the Berlin town palace, two days before Fritz leaves for Rheinsberg. And the source is Seckendorff Jr.s secret diary, bless.
I guess it would have complicated matters for his Manteuffel/Wolff vs. Le Chetardie/Voltaire premise. *side-eyes*
Probably, but it's such an odd avoidance. I mean, it's not even that the Suhm connection is anything new for the research, what with their correspondence having been published in the freaking 18th century already. Now, if you're just someone casually interested in Fritz, you might overlook Suhm's existence - I certainly didn't know about him before Salon times, and when Mildred found him! - but for a doctoral thesis, you dig deeper. Hang on - just checked his bibliography - yes, the Suhm correspondence is listed (Trier edition, i.e. in the original French). So it is a conscious choice not to mention the envoy formerly known as Diablotin.
Speaking of the bibliography, among his unprinted sources are the family archive of the Seckendorff clan (which is located at the Thüringisches Staatsarchiv Altenburg), and from the Prussian Secret State Archive the few surviving Fritz-Manteuffel letters, plus Grumbkow-Manteuffel letters; from the Berlin Stabi, the Nachlass of Maupertuis and of Formey (there specifically Formey's correspondence with Manteuffel, with Manteuffel's daughter Charlotte, with Deschamps). Now if Peter von Keith's autobiographical essay that Formey based his obituary on still survives among the unprinted material, it surely would be in the Formey Nachlass, too...
Manteuffel being prepared seems like another sign that he was pretty good with his information and spy network.
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I guess it would have complicated matters for his Manteuffel/Wolff vs. Le Chetardie/Voltaire premise. *side-eyes*
Probably, but it's such an odd avoidance. I mean, it's not even that the Suhm connection is anything new for the research, what with their correspondence having been published in the freaking 18th century already. Now, if you're just someone casually interested in Fritz, you might overlook Suhm's existence - I certainly didn't know about him before Salon times, and when Mildred found him! - but for a doctoral thesis, you dig deeper. Hang on - just checked his bibliography - yes, the Suhm correspondence is listed (Trier edition, i.e. in the original French). So it is a conscious choice not to mention the envoy formerly known as Diablotin.
Speaking of the bibliography, among his unprinted sources are the family archive of the Seckendorff clan (which is located at the Thüringisches Staatsarchiv Altenburg), and from the Prussian Secret State Archive the few surviving Fritz-Manteuffel letters, plus Grumbkow-Manteuffel letters; from the Berlin Stabi, the Nachlass of Maupertuis and of Formey (there specifically Formey's correspondence with Manteuffel, with Manteuffel's daughter Charlotte, with Deschamps). Now if Peter von Keith's autobiographical essay that Formey based his obituary on still survives among the unprinted material, it surely would be in the Formey Nachlass, too...
Manteuffel being prepared seems like another sign that he was pretty good with his information and spy network.
Yep. Definitely a pro.