The letters themselves prove that Königsmarck and poor SD of Celle, whatever other risks they took, were way more careful in their coding than the Imperial secret service two generations later with such code names like "Olympia", "Junior" and "Le Diable". Königsmarck/SD use about 50 code names, thirty of which have only been decyphred as of 1952, and sometimes several code names for the same person. They also used secret ink, and numbers for additional secrecy.
Good for them! Bad for us, but good for them. Sorry it still didn't work out. :/
Since summaries of love letters tend to be pretty dull ("K swears eternal love" "Pr. is sad about getting no letters the last two days" etc.), except if such details are mentioned as the bit that also made it into Horowski's book, Königsmarck amusing little 6 years old SD and the future Mrs. Grumbkow (same age) by building card houses for them, I mostly leafed through them.
Yeah, that makes sense. Too bad, but glad it led you to the novel. The review was great as your reviews always are, thank you!
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
Re: Sarabande for dead lovers
Date: 2021-06-12 04:36 pm (UTC)Good for them! Bad for us, but good for them. Sorry it still didn't work out. :/
Since summaries of love letters tend to be pretty dull ("K swears eternal love" "Pr. is sad about getting no letters the last two days" etc.), except if such details are mentioned as the bit that also made it into Horowski's book, Königsmarck amusing little 6 years old SD and the future Mrs. Grumbkow (same age) by building card houses for them, I mostly leafed through them.
Yeah, that makes sense. Too bad, but glad it led you to the novel. The review was great as your reviews always are, thank you!