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: Getting other people to do research for me

[mildred_of_midgard]

In more successful news, I contacted someone I went to grad school with who's a native speaker of French and has worked with manuscripts, and she has agreed to help transcribe the 6-line note to Peter Keith from Fritz's minister/secretary. Hopefully she can get the whole thing for us.

Update: she was able to read the note and will get us a transcription when she's back from a business trip, but the one line in Fritz's (I assume) handwriting scribbled in the margin is stumping her too! *lolsob* She says she has a trusted colleague she'll touch base with, since this is for publication, but requested more samples of Fritz's handwriting for comparison, since only having a few words is as much of an obstacle to her as it has been to me and Prinzsorgenfrei.

I've sent her the letter from Hedwig Suhm which has two illegibly scrawled marginalia that appear to be in the same hand, and one of the letters from Fritz to Wilhelmine from the Italy travel website, which is legible and not helpful at all to me, as the characters are formed completely differently. Hopefully she and her trusted colleague get more out of this than I have!

Sheesh, Fritz. :P