...aaaand Schmidt-Lötzen actually left two Häseler bits in volume 1 (the easiest to check, due to having a register):
22. Juli 1756: Häseler returns from Denmark, where he's our court's envoy. I used to be good friends with him, and I very much enjoy seeing him again. He is a very decent fellow, only he shows off being an envoy a little too much right now.
12. September (same year, the 7 years war has started): I'm returning form Potsdam and dine at Count Podewils', where I meet Häseler, who has to return immediately to his post as envoy in Copenhagen. We get a pretty sad impression of this country from him; he'd love very much to stay here. It's rumored he wants to marry little Marschall, and this seems to be true. (The rest of the entry, btw, is about meeting Präsident Voß and his wife, the former Sophie von Pannewitz, who in Lehndorff's opinion is still into AW, which doesn't surprise AW fan Lehndorff one bit.)
(I checked the year 1756 in Volume 2 for any additional bits, but at least in that particular year there doesn't seem to have been anything cut about August von Häseler.)
Very few envoys seem happy to be envoys!
Stratemann: I protest! I was very glad to be envoy and further the cause of happy Hohenzollern/Braunschweig marriages and report about what a wonderful King and Father FW was!
Manteuffel: Well, things in Denmark got a bit expensive back when I was a young envoy, and I did sweat a lot about having to pawn things until I finally got some of my salary, but being envoy in Berlin was fun, true. Having to put up with being invited to the Tobacco Parliament notwithstanding. I did luck out in getting promoted home to Saxony and to minister rank just in time to see the bonkers Clement affair go down from a safe distance, I'll admit.
Seckendorff: Count yourself lucky. Having to attend the Tobacco College was the least of it. I got a front row seat to the full Hohenzollern family insanity, and okay, I succeeded in what I was supposed to, prevent the English marriages, get Junior married to the niece of the Empress, but when I think of all that bribery money I had to spend and my future held not one but two stints in prison for me me, one for losing battles and one because Junior can hold a grudge, well, I should have remained a general.
Hoym: I loved my assignment in Paris. I loved being promoted to ministerdom back home in Dresden even more, of course, and winning over Manteuffel, and I did not love at all being toppled and locked up at Königstein, but speaking strictly of my days as an envoy: *throws kiss at Versailles*
Poniatowski: Oh wonderful glorious time in St. Peterburg with the woman who was MY DESTINY! Her husband, though....
Sir William Hamilton: Well, King Ferdinand was somewhat...immature... but luckily I had my antiquities and my research into volcanology, and then of course my Emma, who got along with the Queen so splendidly, so I would say that by and large, I enjoyed my time as his Majesty's envoy in Naples, yes.
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Re: Fritz is not your dream boss: The Bad Pyrmont edition
Date: 2023-02-25 02:20 pm (UTC)22. Juli 1756: Häseler returns from Denmark, where he's our court's envoy. I used to be good friends with him, and I very much enjoy seeing him again. He is a very decent fellow, only he shows off being an envoy a little too much right now.
12. September (same year, the 7 years war has started): I'm returning form Potsdam and dine at Count Podewils', where I meet Häseler, who has to return immediately to his post as envoy in Copenhagen. We get a pretty sad impression of this country from him; he'd love very much to stay here. It's rumored he wants to marry little Marschall, and this seems to be true. (The rest of the entry, btw, is about meeting Präsident Voß and his wife, the former Sophie von Pannewitz, who in Lehndorff's opinion is still into AW, which doesn't surprise AW fan Lehndorff one bit.)
(I checked the year 1756 in Volume 2 for any additional bits, but at least in that particular year there doesn't seem to have been anything cut about August von Häseler.)
Very few envoys seem happy to be envoys!
Stratemann: I protest! I was very glad to be envoy and further the cause of happy Hohenzollern/Braunschweig marriages and report about what a wonderful King and Father FW was!
Manteuffel: Well, things in Denmark got a bit expensive back when I was a young envoy, and I did sweat a lot about having to pawn things until I finally got some of my salary, but being envoy in Berlin was fun, true. Having to put up with being invited to the Tobacco Parliament notwithstanding. I did luck out in getting promoted home to Saxony and to minister rank just in time to see the bonkers Clement affair go down from a safe distance, I'll admit.
Seckendorff: Count yourself lucky. Having to attend the Tobacco College was the least of it. I got a front row seat to the full Hohenzollern family insanity, and okay, I succeeded in what I was supposed to, prevent the English marriages, get Junior married to the niece of the Empress, but when I think of all that bribery money I had to spend and my future held not one but two stints in prison for me me, one for losing battles and one because Junior can hold a grudge, well, I should have remained a general.
Hoym: I loved my assignment in Paris. I loved being promoted to ministerdom back home in Dresden even more, of course, and winning over Manteuffel, and I did not love at all being toppled and locked up at Königstein, but speaking strictly of my days as an envoy: *throws kiss at Versailles*
Poniatowski: Oh wonderful glorious time in St. Peterburg with the woman who was MY DESTINY! Her husband, though....
Sir William Hamilton: Well, King Ferdinand was somewhat...immature... but luckily I had my antiquities and my research into volcanology, and then of course my Emma, who got along with the Queen so splendidly, so I would say that by and large, I enjoyed my time as his Majesty's envoy in Naples, yes.
Hoym: