This from the guy who is eating up those early Voltaire letters, right. :)
EXACTLY what I was thinking!! Maybe he's suffering from a sugar overdose in the late 1730s. :P
Aw. Considering you and cahn wrote the ultimate first-meeting-in-Küstrin story for me, maybe I should write the first-meeting-in-Frankfurt story?
YES PLEASE. Also, now is an excellent time to do it, since cahn requested the pairing for RMSE, and it does fit the theme! (Though it also fits Yuletide as well, since it was a Christmas concert, after all. ;) And that would give you more time to plan.)
Or maybe Des Champs just wrote "To the heirs of Fredersdorf, Zernikow, Brandenburg", but if he actually wants his letter to arrive, I'm thinking going for the widow is his best shot.
True, and fair point. Although to play devil's advocate, nephew Gustav Christian Fredersdorf was a Konigl. Hof-Rath (now attested not just by unreliable Herrenhausen author but by Buwert as well), shared the last name, was living in Spandau, and had enough money to erect a sizable monument to his son in Frankfurt (Oder) 10 years later, so it's not entirely impossible he would have been on the Des Champs radar, especially if brother Jacques was still living in Berlin.
Also! I heard from Buwert just now. (He's so responsive, it's great. It's like he has nothing to do but reply to my emails about Fredersdorf.) He tried emailing Fahlenkamp but got the same rejection from the server...but, he also has Fahlenkamp's postal address. So he's now written the man a snail mail letter, and is hoping the address is still current and Fahlenkamp is still alive to receive mail. If not, I guess we'll have to send a letter to the heirs. He'll let us know if he hears anything back, and wants me to let him know if I ever manage to get in contact with Fahlenkamp.
...That is some dedication! I rewarded it by telling him about the Des Champs embezzlement claim. I consider him an honorary salon member, though I carefully call it "reading group" when talking to him and definitely don't say it's on Dreamwidth. ;)
Re: Des Champs II: That Damned Soul Fredersdorf
EXACTLY what I was thinking!! Maybe he's suffering from a sugar overdose in the late 1730s. :P
Aw. Considering you and cahn wrote the ultimate first-meeting-in-Küstrin story for me, maybe I should write the first-meeting-in-Frankfurt story?
YES PLEASE. Also, now is an excellent time to do it, since
Or maybe Des Champs just wrote "To the heirs of Fredersdorf, Zernikow, Brandenburg", but if he actually wants his letter to arrive, I'm thinking going for the widow is his best shot.
True, and fair point. Although to play devil's advocate, nephew Gustav Christian Fredersdorf was a Konigl. Hof-Rath (now attested not just by unreliable Herrenhausen author but by Buwert as well), shared the last name, was living in Spandau, and had enough money to erect a sizable monument to his son in Frankfurt (Oder) 10 years later, so it's not entirely impossible he would have been on the Des Champs radar, especially if brother Jacques was still living in Berlin.
Also! I heard from Buwert just now. (He's so responsive, it's great. It's like he has nothing to do but reply to my emails about Fredersdorf.) He tried emailing Fahlenkamp but got the same rejection from the server...but, he also has Fahlenkamp's postal address. So he's now written the man a snail mail letter, and is hoping the address is still current and Fahlenkamp is still alive to receive mail.
If not, I guess we'll have to send a letter to the heirs.He'll let us know if he hears anything back, and wants me to let him know if I ever manage to get in contact with Fahlenkamp....That is some dedication! I rewarded it by telling him about the Des Champs embezzlement claim. I consider him an honorary salon member, though I carefully call it "reading group" when talking to him and definitely don't say it's on Dreamwidth. ;)