Thank you for the review! No time to reply in full this morning, but:
(Since I'm writing this in the late 1920s, and there isn't a contemporary source I have not seen, this means that whatever caused the "Fredersdorf got fired for embezzling" story at wiki must have been published after my review.)
Yeah, I'm increasingly suspecting Alfred Weise, and will ask Buwert, probably this weekend.
([personal profile] selenak: it's no comfort for me, either, Volz, because it never got published, to this day.)
Curses!
Those letters dealing with Fritz briefly actually falling into temptation and trying alchemy as well to beef up his budget all deal with an event happening in September 1753 and are directly connected, even if they are undated
Iiinteresting.
Richter has unquestioningly accepted the completely faulty edition of Countess Voss' diaries which I made mincemeat of re: what that editor did with the misidentifications.
I remember that! Richter! Even *I* noticed immediately that the editor was making historical howlers, and that was before we read Volz's take!
I should have edited it, though.
Indeed! And I still lament that scholarly edition.
Re: the scholarly edition, since apparently Richter had died by the time his edition got published, and the Worst Fanboys were just around the corner, I wonder whether the plan for a scholarly edition died because whoever was supposed to do it either had to go into exile or worse?
(Just checked Volz' own life dates; born 1871, died 1938. In addition to all things Fritz, wrote about the Comte de Saint-Germain, which really makes it sound like he'd have done a better job with the alchemy background.
since apparently Richter had died by the time his edition got published
Didn't know that! I just remember you being worried about what he was going to get up to in a few years, based on some of his remarks.
In addition to all things Fritz, wrote about the Comte de Saint-Germain, which really makes it sound like he'd have done a better job with the alchemy background.
It does. And I remember mentioning the Comte as possibly relevant to our interests (this was before time-traveling valets!) when you first told me Volz was a valuable resource and I went looking for what I could find of his. (That was when we turned up his Trenck deconstruction.) I didn't find the Comte one online, though with the usual caveat of that being more than a year ago.
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Re: Volz on Richter: The Review
Date: 2021-03-30 12:21 pm (UTC)(Since I'm writing this in the late 1920s, and there isn't a contemporary source I have not seen, this means that whatever caused the "Fredersdorf got fired for embezzling" story at wiki must have been published after my review.)
Yeah, I'm increasingly suspecting Alfred Weise, and will ask Buwert, probably this weekend.
([personal profile] selenak: it's no comfort for me, either, Volz, because it never got published, to this day.)
Curses!
Those letters dealing with Fritz briefly actually falling into temptation and trying alchemy as well to beef up his budget all deal with an event happening in September 1753 and are directly connected, even if they are undated
Iiinteresting.
Richter has unquestioningly accepted the completely faulty edition of Countess Voss' diaries which I made mincemeat of re: what that editor did with the misidentifications.
I remember that! Richter! Even *I* noticed immediately that the editor was making historical howlers, and that was before we read Volz's take!
I should have edited it, though.
Indeed! And I still lament that scholarly edition.
Re: Volz on Richter: The Review
Date: 2021-03-30 12:33 pm (UTC)(Just checked Volz' own life dates; born 1871, died 1938. In addition to all things Fritz, wrote about the Comte de Saint-Germain, which really makes it sound like he'd have done a better job with the alchemy background.
Re: Volz on Richter: The Review
Date: 2021-03-30 04:18 pm (UTC)Didn't know that! I just remember you being worried about what he was going to get up to in a few years, based on some of his remarks.
In addition to all things Fritz, wrote about the Comte de Saint-Germain, which really makes it sound like he'd have done a better job with the alchemy background.
It does. And I remember mentioning the Comte as possibly relevant to our interests (this was before time-traveling valets!) when you first told me Volz was a valuable resource and I went looking for what I could find of his. (That was when we turned up his Trenck deconstruction.) I didn't find the Comte one online, though with the usual caveat of that being more than a year ago.
Re: Volz on Richter: The Review
Date: 2021-03-31 08:06 am (UTC)