Speaking of letters to be had, it occured to me that Ferdinand's general invisibility on anyone's radar, in addition to him being both the youngest and the longest lived and having children to inherit the letters who aren't the rulers of the country, might be why we still have the letters both his brothers wrote to him, including the lethally angry ones from Heinrich after AW's death. (I mean, it's hard to imagine what more hardcore stuff he could have written elsewhere than calling Fritz a monster who is drowning all of Europe in blood.) At a guess, Ferdinand's letters didn't find their way to the state archive until the later 19th century, and by then no one was interested anymore and/or realized what could be in the content.
"BPH": Just guessing, but maybe BP for Borussia Princeps"?
Heh, that's hilarious and ironic that it's Ferdinand's very invisibility that might mean we have more of his stuff :) The revenge of Ferdinand! (who has always shown us friendship!) (that will never not be funny to me)
Ah, sorry - the state archive has different collections, and BPH means "Brandenburg-Preußisches Hausarchiv", i.e. the royal archive that, as far as I know, was kept separate for a while in the 19th/20th century. HA means "Hauptabteilung" of the state archive, but I'm not sure how it all connects and have yet to understand the entire structure of the archive (the online database sure doesn't help).
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Re: FW and the Younglings
Date: 2021-04-16 04:01 am (UTC)"BPH": Just guessing, but maybe BP for Borussia Princeps"?
Re: FW and the Younglings
Date: 2021-04-16 05:02 am (UTC)Re: FW and the Younglings
Date: 2021-04-16 05:57 pm (UTC):D
(who has always shown us friendship!)
:DDD
Re: FW and the Younglings
Date: 2021-04-16 05:55 pm (UTC)