I would say "maybe that's why his letters got cut by editors?" except depressingly I suspect it's more in line with the general policy of editing anyone not Fritz' letters as the editors assume the only interest in these people lies in what reactions they get out of Fritz.
Sadly, this was my thought too.
I think if you're not pro-Imperially minded and a member of Fritz' circle, that's almost guaranteed.
But until this past week, I had no idea how Suhm, a Saxon envoy, might feel about the HRE! Only in the past few days has a picture of pro-England, anti-HRE leanings started to emerge. (Which, as noted, would explain a lot about FW's feelings, even beyond Suhm/Fritz.)
I look forward to the Knobelsdorff and Gundling novel write-ups!
You can add Mitchell who notoriously pissed off his superiors in London with his pro-Prussia reports from the front enough that they replaced him with Joseph Yorke for a hot second before relenting to Fritz wanting to keep Mitchell
Oh, right, yes, him too!
Incidentally, it has occured to me that in a perverse way, Suhm being ready to commit to him and Prussia might have been one of the reasons why Fritz absolutely did not want someone like Peter, who liked it in England and had forged ties there, as an envoy - he was vain, but not so much that he believed becoming emotionally attached to your posting could happen only when he was there.
Well, he wrote that the British regard Peter as "half a Briton," and it sure didn't sound like he disagreed, so I suspect he already suspected Peter of having gone native.
Rottembourg: I forgot to mention this, but Morgenstern claims he liked it so much in FW's Prussia that he longed for it from Madrid. After reading Leineweber, I choose to believe this was another instant where Morgenstern was being sarcastic.
Rottembourg, of all people!
So I consider it plausible and even likely that Rottembourg missed people that he left behind. He had clearly forged close ties with Katte, so most likely with other Berliners as well.
He may, while in Madrid, have written that he missed X about Prussia/Berlin. Humans can always find something to complain about!
He may even have been telling the truth that the reason he wanted to leave was his health (he did die in 1735, shortly after being recalled from Madrid for that reason).
But what I don't buy is that he missed *FW's* Prussia, qua FW's Prussia. Not the guy who put the finishing touches on Katte's French manners and tried to stage a coup! If he missed anything, it was SD's Prussia.
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Re: Suhm letters III
Sadly, this was my thought too.
I think if you're not pro-Imperially minded and a member of Fritz' circle, that's almost guaranteed.
But until this past week, I had no idea how Suhm, a Saxon envoy, might feel about the HRE! Only in the past few days has a picture of pro-England, anti-HRE leanings started to emerge. (Which, as noted, would explain a lot about FW's feelings, even beyond Suhm/Fritz.)
I look forward to the Knobelsdorff and Gundling novel write-ups!
You can add Mitchell who notoriously pissed off his superiors in London with his pro-Prussia reports from the front enough that they replaced him with Joseph Yorke for a hot second before relenting to Fritz wanting to keep Mitchell
Oh, right, yes, him too!
Incidentally, it has occured to me that in a perverse way, Suhm being ready to commit to him and Prussia might have been one of the reasons why Fritz absolutely did not want someone like Peter, who liked it in England and had forged ties there, as an envoy - he was vain, but not so much that he believed becoming emotionally attached to your posting could happen only when he was there.
Well, he wrote that the British regard Peter as "half a Briton," and it sure didn't sound like he disagreed, so I suspect he already suspected Peter of having gone native.
Rottembourg: I forgot to mention this, but Morgenstern claims he liked it so much in FW's Prussia that he longed for it from Madrid. After reading Leineweber, I choose to believe this was another instant where Morgenstern was being sarcastic.
Rottembourg, of all people!
So I consider it plausible and even likely that Rottembourg missed people that he left behind. He had clearly forged close ties with Katte, so most likely with other Berliners as well.
He may, while in Madrid, have written that he missed X about Prussia/Berlin. Humans can always find something to complain about!
He may even have been telling the truth that the reason he wanted to leave was his health (he did die in 1735, shortly after being recalled from Madrid for that reason).
But what I don't buy is that he missed *FW's* Prussia, qua FW's Prussia. Not the guy who put the finishing touches on Katte's French manners and tried to stage a coup! If he missed anything, it was SD's Prussia.
So yeah, Ima guess sarcasm with you. :P