selenak: (Malcolm Murray)

Re: He's just a soul whose intentions were good: Morgenstern on FW - A

[personal profile] selenak 2021-03-14 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
Another score! Go you for tracking down Abt the twice dying, that's most impressive, she says in her most sinister Vader voice. BTW,this cross confirmation heightens my confidence that Morgenstern's later life FW factoids are in fact correct. Since he's writing his FW biography in the late 1760s at the earliest and in 1782 at the latest, he also must have a great memory to recall the name of the valets at the time of FW's death, and what subsequently became of them.
felis: (House renfair)

Re: He's just a soul whose intentions were good: Morgenstern on FW - A

[personal profile] felis 2021-03-14 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's always nice to get confirmation like this. On the other hand, I guess a story like this would have been told and re-told for years - which is probably the reason Morgenstern doesn't elaborate in the first place, assuming that people during his time have heard it and therefore using it as a shorthand to identify Abt.
mildred_of_midgard: (Default)

Re: He's just a soul whose intentions were good: Morgenstern on FW - A

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard 2021-03-14 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, that does make sense!