18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 35

[cahn]

In the previous post Charles II found AITA:

Look, I, m, believe in live and let live. (And in not going on my travels again. Had enough of that to last a life time.) Why can't everyone else around me be more chill? Instead, my wife refuses to employ my girlfriend, my girlfriend won't budge and accept another office, my brother is set on a course to piss off everyone (he WILL go on his travels again), and my oldest kid shows signs of wanting my job which is just not on, sorry to say. And don't get me started about Mom (thank God she's living abroad). What am I doing wrong? AITA?

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Re: Colonel John O'Sullivan's memoirs

[cahn]

and hello I'm so get your Internet as far as yeah namely italics your bra yeah [I left this hilarious bit in, which happened when I started having a Swedish conversation in the middle of my dictation]

Lol! That was hilarious, although I had a very odd minute where I was like "...this was in the memoirs? what?"

Here's a sample:

Aww. I totally empathize; he writes like I do! :D

He always writes yt for that, which I've never seen before.

Heh, I'm glad you said that, as I was parsing it as "yet" which... doesn't really make sense :)

And it's interesting how his spelling reveals pronunciation, as when he writes Reven for Ruthven, and Camel(!) for Campbell.

Oh! That is interesting!

Regardless of whether it did or didn't encourage the men, this seems a much likelier scenario than BPC not realizing what their chances were. He obviously had his flaws, but he wasn't that stupid.

*nods* That makes a lot of sense!

(As for BPC:s actual lover during the '45--I just want to tell Clementina Walkinshaw to run…)

There is clearly a story here! Oh, which I see selenak has linked to (luzula, don't strain your wrists and voice!) so I will go there next :)

'Sullivan cant containe, he burst out a crying to quit the Prince & to see the danger & misery he was exposed to

Aww, this is really touching! I think there's something about the colloquial "he burst out a crying" that just gets me <3

and then later shoots a bird and makes him chicken soup from scratch.

What! That's fantastic!

Re: Colonel John O'Sullivan's memoirs

[luzula]

Late reply: glad you enjoyed the look at colloquial 18th c language, as well as the slashiness! : D

Since you like gossip: there's clearly a story about O'Sullivan and his wife. He married a Louise Fitzgerald in 1749, about whom James Edgar (James III's secretary) writes in a gossipy and judgemental letter: Chevalier O'Sulivan has not writ to me on his marriage. If his Bride had been younger, he would probably have done it. I much doubt if I could have brought myself to make such a choice. I hope he will find his account in it and that it will turn much to his advantage.

Which I interpret as his wife being, in Edgar's eyes, old and ugly, but she had money? She died in 1760, at which point O'Sullivan was also ill, and sends word in a letter to Edgar that He desires me likewise to let you know that ye loss he has sustain'd in his Lady's death was not only that of faithfull friend and compagnon, why was ye happiness of his life, but that he also lost 8000 livres p. annum [...].

I hope they actually were happy together...

Re: Colonel John O'Sullivan's memoirs

[cahn]

Heeeee, I do like gossip, thank you!

Heh, I'm also hoping that this is Edgar being judgmental and that they were happy together!