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: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 4

[mildred_of_midgard]

I'm off to see what letter 5 holds

Halfway through, and the answer so far is: nothing of interest. Really just bill paying. I skimmed the second half, and with the caveat that skimming and this handwriting don't really mix, no interesting proper names jumped out at me.

I will see if I can summon up the energy to read more handwriting; the last few days have been intense (and time-consuming). Thank you for the collaboration, Selena!!, and I'm glad I was able to get to the point of being able to read 5 relevant letters in 4 days with just 5 days of practice. I bet an actual German speaker could do twice as much in half the time. ;)