18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 33

[cahn]

And, I mean, it doesn't have to be just 18th century characters, either!

(also, waiting for Yuletide!)

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Re: Letters from Soul Mates: FW and Alte Dessauer

[cahn]

Preface writer assures us every single thing FW wrote with his own hands is reprinted here, bad spelling and all..

Wow. (I'm gonna hazard a guess that it was way less than Fritz wrote :PP )

His main reason for not believing FW ever suspected his pal of pals being that Old Dessauer gets informed via letters by FW about the ongoing Klement affair which editor thinks would not have happened if Klement had named Dessauer as involved or FW suspected him for a moment.

But didn't that happen at the very end?

There was an almost duel between Old Dessauer and Grumbkow in 1725! Which FW really really did not want to happen.

Hee, I did not remember this from Wilhelmine, man.

Re: Letters from Soul Mates: FW and Alte Dessauer

[mildred_of_midgard]

Preface writer assures us every single thing FW wrote with his own hands is reprinted here, bad spelling and all..

Wow. (I'm gonna hazard a guess that it was way less than Fritz wrote :PP )

I think maybe you interpreted this to mean everything he wrote in his lifetime? What the preface writer means is everything he wrote to the Old Dessauer. Which is still some 700 pages! (Which is why we don't expect even the redoubtable selenak to read it all. :))

Hee, I did not remember this from Wilhelmine, man.

Benefits of having had to read every single sentence in German, very slowly, and think very hard about it before moving on to the next sentence. :)

Re: Letters from Soul Mates: FW and Alte Dessauer

[selenak]

Dittoing this, the editor meant all FW wrote by his own hand to Old Dessaur, not to other people. The letter passages (and letters) which were written by FW's secretary to Old Dessauer get summarized.