Look at you doing scholarly research! This is amazing! :DDD
(Mildred will at some point, when she's a little less busy, post this in the library.)
Oh right! Thank you for the reminder. I will indeed. This weekend I've decided to devote entirely to book-digitizing in hopes of getting it over with sooner rather than later. Poor Peter Keith's ghost is waiting patiently, and now Wilhelmine's travel diary will have to wait a couple weeks before I can start (it mostly seems to be a list of sights seen, so there may not be much exciting material), but I've added Pamela to my post-digitization todo list as well.
-I would love to read Magnan's writing on this, if Royal Detective can get her hands on it :D
Royal Detective looked into this when we first learned about it and came to the conclusion that it would be doable but not cheap. It's totally on my list for when I finish German and move on to French, though. Do you want it now, or are you willing to wait until next year?
ETA:
...huh, I just reread that bit and you know what he doesn't say?! He doesn't say that the dirty laundry story is false! He just, you know, implies and insinuates that it's false. But he doesn't come out outright and say it. Hmmmmmm.
Yes, one of the Fritz or Voltaire biographers I've read, I forget which, says that Voltaire's objection wasn't that the story was false, but that it was passed onto Fritz.
Re: Pamela
(Mildred will at some point, when she's a little less busy, post this in the library.)
Oh right! Thank you for the reminder. I will indeed. This weekend I've decided to devote entirely to book-digitizing in hopes of getting it over with sooner rather than later. Poor Peter Keith's ghost is waiting patiently, and now Wilhelmine's travel diary will have to wait a couple weeks before I can start (it mostly seems to be a list of sights seen, so there may not be much exciting material), but I've added Pamela to my post-digitization todo list as well.
-I would love to read Magnan's writing on this, if Royal Detective can get her hands on it :D
Royal Detective looked into this when we first learned about it and came to the conclusion that it would be doable but not cheap. It's totally on my list for when I finish German and move on to French, though. Do you want it now, or are you willing to wait until next year?
ETA:
...huh, I just reread that bit and you know what he doesn't say?! He doesn't say that the dirty laundry story is false! He just, you know, implies and insinuates that it's false. But he doesn't come out outright and say it. Hmmmmmm.
Yes, one of the Fritz or Voltaire biographers I've read, I forget which, says that Voltaire's objection wasn't that the story was false, but that it was passed onto Fritz.