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: Saxon archives

[mildred_of_midgard]

I was in such a hurry yesterday I forgot to joke that while I apparently can't recognize Suhm's handwriting after all, I can recognize *a* Suhm's handwriting! ;)

Re: Saxon archives

[selenak]

Okay, here are some Suhm relevant footnotes from AvB:

Brühl's original instructions to Suhm: Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden, Loc. 3026, Vo. I.

Suhm's short note from September 15th where he says he had a extrarordinarily successful conversation with Biron but wants to report the content verbally to his brother is alas only paraphrased, not quoted, and thus not footnoted.

Suhm to Brühl about Anna Leopoldovna declaring she'd rather die than marry Anton Ulrich, otoh, is quoted and thus we have:

Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden, Loc. 3026

Suhm's letter from Dec. 18th 1739 where he prophecies the Russians will go after Poland one day and develops his own Realpolitik plan for Poland: Also

Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden, Loc. 3026.

Re: Saxon archives

[mildred_of_midgard]

Awww, man. There are 7 volumes and none of them are digitized!

Well, the plan is for me to finish reading up on the Danes, then go back to French, then acquire the ability to read handwritten French a whole lot faster. Then it might make sense to check out 7 volumes of Suhm correspondence. Maybe by then they'll have digitized it.

Thanks anyway!