OMG, no, I cannot believe this, you cannot be real, you are my new hero!!
We were just admiring your guide to Fritzian siblings that Selena pointed us to and wondering where you were and hoping you would come back. But I wasn't expecting THIS! :DDD
Anyway, I've been to Wust twice this year, once two days ago (what does it say about me that I drove 500km for a dead guy's 291st Jahrgedächtnis...?)
That you are LUCKY and also dedicated and also MY HERO! (selenak, your 45 pictures of Wust taken specifically for me are the best thing that ever happened to me in salon and the only thing that's reconciled me to not having been there myself. <333)
We extremely need your help with the paleographical side of things, and now you're telling us the Wust association does too??! OMG! I have two sets of historical documents (one Fredersdorf, one Peter Keith) that if we can figure out how to get them from the archives, I will legit pay you for a transcription.
ALSO! See if the Wust people can help you get a copy of Martin von Katte's unpublished manuscripts on the Katte family and on Hans Hermann! They form the basis for Kloosterhuis' Katte monograph, but I haven't been able to get them! Tell them I'm writing an article. (I am, probably. :P)
Also also, one of the reasons I've been eagerly waiting for you to come back is that we need some transcription help with this very short record! Top of the right hand page, the one that starts v. Keith. That's Peter's widow's death record, turned up courtesy of cahn!
Felis and Selena were able to read all but a few words. This discussion has what Felis was able to interpret. Can you help?
Speaking of Katte, I got an article about the punishment methods at his boarding school by a Thomas Grunewald, don't know if you've already covered that...? I haven't read the whole thing yet, but what I've seen is very interesting.
We don't know this, please share! Is it online? If not, can you scan a copy?
"wird besonders ermahnt, weil er sich vieles sagen lassen kann, aber nachher so tut als sei nichts gewesen".
LOLOL, oh Katte. Was this Francke's Pietest pedagogium at Halle?
Finally, I made some art during the last few months. I don't remember if I shared my latest comic with you...? It's not even that new, but I sorta forgot... Anyway:
I had not seen this! LOLOL Algarotti, Fritz needs a sex therapist, clearly!
Speaking of constructive criticism, since we know that 1) Andrew Mitchell was one the "tastiest dish" for Algarotti, 2) Fritz showed some of his poetry to Mitchell, Selena has embraced as headcanon my joke that Fritz and Mitchell obviously talked about how their ex Algarotti was hot stuff, and also Mitchell critiqued the orgasm poem for realism wrt Algarotti's orgasms. :'D
Your art is so great. <3 If you'd come back in time for Rare Male Slash Exchange, I would have begged for your help with the flyer in my modern-day Fritzian corporate AU. Instead, I ended up with this ridiculous thing and had the characters mock my graphic design skills or lack thereof in-universe, lol. :'D
Speaking of fic, I read your road-trip fic and loved it! I didn't leave a comment solely because in order to quote my favorite parts, I would have had to reread the fic, and you have to understand that my German, while massively improved over 2 years ago, is extreeeemely slow and painful. I'm working on it and plan to leave a juicy comment with quotes once I can do so without it taking two weeks! (Also, it was super useful for teaching me some modern vocabulary, since all the vocab I have is for things like "fortress" and "bloodletting", not "seatbelt", lol forever, but also takes me even longer than usual to read for that reason.)
Btw, I'm currently reading Kloosterhuis, and once I'm finished, I'm going to try Zeithain again. (Zeithain will be much better German practice, but I wanted to do it in this order, because I wanted to see what Roes fictionalized vs. drew from history.)
The coloured pencil one was gifted to the people in Wust and will apparently end up on some wall there :'D
OMG! Btw, if you're tight with the local historical association and talk Katte portraits with them, do you want to tell them that the Katte portrait they do have on the wall is almost certainly Catt, per our discussion here?
In other news, I'm currently trying to turn some of our historical research into publishable articles! This is why I need help getting materials from the archives and then someone to transcribe them. :D
Article 1: Biographical sketch of Peter Keith. According to the Prussian archives, there's an unpublished correspondence that appears to be between him and Fritz, 1745-1750. (I know you don't know French, but I have someone who can almost certainly help with that part!) Kloosterhuis also gives two different months for his marriage to Ariane, and he gives the citation the marriage record, and I'd love to get a copy of that as well.
Article 2: Thanks to my persistent detective work, cahn's emotional and financial investment (lol), and selenak's reading and summarizing of books written in German, we have figured out almost all of what's up with Fredersdorf's embezzlement accusation (in Wikipedia as well as Fahlenkamp), and solved another mystery while we were at it! But in order to make this production-grade material, I have one item from the box bills project, from Fredersdorf's successor to him asking about Glasow's embezzlement, that I need to get my hands on the original of, because I'm relying on the box bill project's summary on their webpage. This one will be in German, at least.
Your art is going straight into Rheinsberg!
Meanwhile, if any of our German speakers want to see if it's possible to order online from the Prussian archives, I would appreciate the help. When gambitten checked, there was a form, but also it said the cashier's office was closed due to the pandemic. Every time I check, it still says closed. But maybe there's some way for us to order anyway?
If not, we'll have to wait, and I will let you know, transcription specialist prinzsorgenfrei, when I have more materials for you to transcribe! (Don't forget to ask the Wust people about Martin von Katte's stuff! I've been dying to get my hands on those manuscripts since Selena first told me about them!)
Also, your kattestrophe blog says there's a Fritz & Co. Discord. What kinds of conversations happen there? Is there anyone there who might be interested in joining salon?
We missed you, but you have come back with a bang! Please keep us apprised of your transcription findings!
ETA: Speaking of Rare Male Slash Exchange, I meant to note that Selena wrote me a lovely Peter Keith fic in which Algarotti finds that some Germans, even traumatized ones without a lot of recent experience, are great in bed. :D (Peter, setting a standard that Fritz couldn't live up to? Lol!) But I see from the kudos that you've already found it. :)
In other news, we also turned up Wilhelmine's travel diary from her Italy visit. I'm halfway cleaning up the OCR so we can run it through Google Translate and see if there's anything interesting. So far no, but you never know! There will also be some Fritz & Wilhelmine letters, but I'm not sure if they're ones that have already been found elsewhere by salon or not.
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Re: A mixture of stuff, mostly Katte related
Date: 2021-11-08 02:12 pm (UTC)We were just admiring your guide to Fritzian siblings that Selena pointed us to and wondering where you were and hoping you would come back. But I wasn't expecting THIS! :DDD
Anyway, I've been to Wust twice this year, once two days ago (what does it say about me that I drove 500km for a dead guy's 291st Jahrgedächtnis...?)
That you are LUCKY and also dedicated and also MY HERO! (
We extremely need your help with the paleographical side of things, and now you're telling us the Wust association does too??! OMG! I have two sets of historical documents (one Fredersdorf, one Peter Keith) that if we can figure out how to get them from the archives, I will legit pay you for a transcription.
ALSO! See if the Wust people can help you get a copy of Martin von Katte's unpublished manuscripts on the Katte family and on Hans Hermann! They form the basis for Kloosterhuis' Katte monograph, but I haven't been able to get them! Tell them I'm writing an article. (I am, probably. :P)
Also also, one of the reasons I've been eagerly waiting for you to come back is that we need some transcription help with this very short record! Top of the right hand page, the one that starts v. Keith. That's Peter's widow's death record, turned up courtesy of
Felis and Selena were able to read all but a few words. This discussion has what Felis was able to interpret. Can you help?
Speaking of Katte, I got an article about the punishment methods at his boarding school by a Thomas Grunewald, don't know if you've already covered that...? I haven't read the whole thing yet, but what I've seen is very interesting.
We don't know this, please share! Is it online? If not, can you scan a copy?
"wird besonders ermahnt, weil er sich vieles sagen lassen kann, aber nachher so tut als sei nichts gewesen".
LOLOL, oh Katte. Was this Francke's Pietest pedagogium at Halle?
Finally, I made some art during the last few months. I don't remember if I shared my latest comic with you...? It's not even that new, but I sorta forgot... Anyway:
I had not seen this! LOLOL Algarotti, Fritz needs a sex therapist, clearly!
Speaking of constructive criticism, since we know that 1) Andrew Mitchell was one the "tastiest dish" for Algarotti, 2) Fritz showed some of his poetry to Mitchell, Selena has embraced as headcanon my joke that Fritz and Mitchell obviously talked about how their ex Algarotti was hot stuff, and also Mitchell critiqued the orgasm poem for realism wrt Algarotti's orgasms. :'D
Your art is so great. <3 If you'd come back in time for Rare Male Slash Exchange, I would have begged for your help with the flyer in my modern-day Fritzian corporate AU. Instead, I ended up with this ridiculous thing and had the characters mock my graphic design skills or lack thereof in-universe, lol. :'D
Speaking of fic, I read your road-trip fic and loved it! I didn't leave a comment solely because in order to quote my favorite parts, I would have had to reread the fic, and you have to understand that my German, while massively improved over 2 years ago, is extreeeemely slow and painful. I'm working on it and plan to leave a juicy comment with quotes once I can do so without it taking two weeks! (Also, it was super useful for teaching me some modern vocabulary, since all the vocab I have is for things like "fortress" and "bloodletting", not "seatbelt", lol forever, but also takes me even longer than usual to read for that reason.)
Btw, I'm currently reading Kloosterhuis, and once I'm finished, I'm going to try Zeithain again. (Zeithain will be much better German practice, but I wanted to do it in this order, because I wanted to see what Roes fictionalized vs. drew from history.)
The coloured pencil one was gifted to the people in Wust and will apparently end up on some wall there :'D
OMG! Btw, if you're tight with the local historical association and talk Katte portraits with them, do you want to tell them that the Katte portrait they do have on the wall is almost certainly Catt, per our discussion here?
In other news, I'm currently trying to turn some of our historical research into publishable articles! This is why I need help getting materials from the archives and then someone to transcribe them. :D
Article 1: Biographical sketch of Peter Keith. According to the Prussian archives, there's an unpublished correspondence that appears to be between him and Fritz, 1745-1750. (I know you don't know French, but I have someone who can almost certainly help with that part!) Kloosterhuis also gives two different months for his marriage to Ariane, and he gives the citation the marriage record, and I'd love to get a copy of that as well.
Article 2: Thanks to my persistent detective work,
Your art is going straight into Rheinsberg!
Meanwhile, if any of our German speakers want to see if it's possible to order online from the Prussian archives, I would appreciate the help. When
If not, we'll have to wait, and I will let you know, transcription specialist
Also, your kattestrophe blog says there's a Fritz & Co. Discord. What kinds of conversations happen there? Is there anyone there who might be interested in joining salon?
We missed you, but you have come back with a bang! Please keep us apprised of your transcription findings!
ETA: Speaking of Rare Male Slash Exchange, I meant to note that Selena wrote me a lovely Peter Keith fic in which Algarotti finds that some Germans, even traumatized ones without a lot of recent experience, are great in bed. :D (Peter, setting a standard that Fritz couldn't live up to? Lol!) But I see from the kudos that you've already found it. :)
In other news, we also turned up Wilhelmine's travel diary from her Italy visit. I'm halfway cleaning up the OCR so we can run it through Google Translate and see if there's anything interesting. So far no, but you never know! There will also be some Fritz & Wilhelmine letters, but I'm not sure if they're ones that have already been found elsewhere by salon or not.