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:) Still talking about Charles XII of Sweden / the Great Northern War and the Stuarts and the Jacobites, among other things!

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mildred_of_midgard

Oh! Dammit! One more thing I forgot to mention.

Since you're now salon's official transcriber, if there are any books or other materials that would either aid you in your noble Katte endeavors, or generally be of interest to salon, that I could help pay for, let me know! I got a raise last month and as official salon librarian, am offering to help buy books for the cause. :D

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prinzsorgenfrei

Oh boy, an official title :'D Pressure's on.

Thank you for the offer! I'm always trying to complete my Katte/trial collection, but most of what I find is really cheap, no need to complicate things ^^ Just got the book of different monarchs' letters related to the trial and am trying to get my hands on Kriegsgericht in Köpenick. Have been for months. The seller had some problems locating his copy :'D Speaking of books, i did an internship at an auction house for books and prints and might start a job there at some point, that would give me access to some great historical books and books about books :D I did find a complete (?) list of Katte-fiction, but i think i lost the photo i took of it... will have to check that book again

From:

mildred_of_midgard

Oh boy, an official title :'D Pressure's on.

Hee, no pressure! You're way ahead of some of us who can read a little German, slowly, barely read anything in Fraktur or any of its related godawful fonts, and no handwriting at all!

Thank you for the offer! I'm always trying to complete my Katte/trial collection, but most of what I find is really cheap, no need to complicate things ^^

Okay, let me know! It doesn't have to be strictly Katte, as long as it's of great interest to salon.

Just got the book of different monarchs' letters related to the trial

Oh, cool. I got that one a while back.

and am trying to get my hands on Kriegsgericht in Köpenick. Have been for months.

Huh. I haven't tried for that one, but it seems like there are several copies for sale when I search for it. I take it it's harder to find than it looks? If there's a more expensive copy that might be easier to acquire, lmk.

The seller had some problems locating his copy :'D

Omg, that keeps happening to me! Well, technically it happened once, but it happened at the same time as Amazon said they were out of stock of a related book and had no idea when it would be back in stock, and shortly before I received a rare book and instead received a really common book by a very similar title, same author, same year of publication! :'D (This is me trying and struggling to get my hands on a bunch of mostly out-of-print books mostly in another language I can't read (Italian) on the eighteenth-century Medici.)

Anyway. Onward and upward with the valiant quest!

From:

prinzsorgenfrei

The book isn't hard to acquire, but now I'm a little attached to the vaguely confused seller :'D A history Professor from Berlin who actually worked on a book about Fritz at some point (don't remember which one right now, I didn't read it. I think it was one about his relationship to other european countries). I should write him another e-mail, ask how his vacation went and whether he's found the book by now or whether I should look for a different copy :'D