Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 42

[cahn]

Last post, we had (among other things) Danish kings and their favorites; Louis XIV and Philippe d'Orléans; reviews of a very shippy book about Katte, a bad Jacobite novel, and a great book about clothing; a fic about Émilie du Châtelet and Voltaire; and a review of a set of entertaining Youtube history videos about Frederick the Great.

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Re: The Prussian archives deliver again!

[mildred_of_midgard]

Same here. And yes, that means that while Suhm doesn't see his brother or Fritz again, he does have his children (and very likely sister) with him when he dies. As I said elsewhere, I'm unsurprised they don't come up in the Fritz correspondence more often

I just got confirmation that I wasn't crazy when I thought it was at least a possibility for an envoy to leave his family back home. I just read that Goodricke, the British envoy to Sweden I've been telling you about, didn't see his wife for eleven years between when he set out for Stockholm and when she came to join him. And St. Petersburg seems like especially a place where you might not drag your whole family. Mind you, I still think the evidence is Suhm did! But at least it wasn't out of the question that he might not have.