18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 36

[cahn]

Starting a couple of comments earlier than usual to mention there are a couple of new salon fics! These probably both need canon knowledge.

felis ficlets on siblings!

Siblings (541 words) by felisnocturna
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf, August Wilhelm von Preußen | Augustus William of Prussia (1722-1758), Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758)
Summary:

Three Fills for the 2022 Three Sentence Ficathon.

Chapter One: Protective Action / Babysitting at Rheinsberg (Frederick/Fredersdorf, William+Henry+Ferdinand)
Chapter Two: Here Be Lions (Wilhelmine)

Unsent Letters fic by me:

Letters for a Dead King (1981 words) by raspberryhunter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great & Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen (1726-1802)
Characters: Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen | Henry of Prussia (1726-1802)
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Love/Hate, Talking To Dead People, Canonical Character Death, Dysfunctional Family
Summary:

Just because one's king and brother is dead doesn't mean one has to stop writing to him.

Comments

Re: Lehndorff

[mildred_of_midgard]

Ah, okay! I misunderstood, because I had said "it's not in this collection of his correspondence" and you said "if it's not in his correspondence," so I wanted to point out that it might very well be in his correspondence, just not this one (relatively) small collection!

So now that I understand what you're actually saying: Besterman is where this detective would look next. And I'm now reminded that the E-Enlightenment site used Besterman as their basis and continues to add new letters as they turn up.

Haha, I went to the E-enlightenment site just now, and saw their big news on the front page is: "62 new documents, including a newly discovered letter by Voltaire," and on the learn more page is "Voltaire letters continue to be discovered." Ha! "Up to the Last Judgment" indeed. ;)

Meh, I have the money again now, so I'm toying with the question of whether it's worth it, given that my research interests have shifted slightly. I might at some point. (Salon, so much like my life in microcosm, is an ever-shifting balance between "Do I have time?" and "Do I have money?")