Still going! Still clearing Fritz's valet/chamberlain Fredersdorf's name from the calumny enshrined in wikipedia that he was dismissed for financial irregularities!
Return of the translator (typing away on the airplane from Lissabon to Munich):
Firstly, since His Royal Majesty is concerned about mon cher compere due to the circumstances of your health, and wants you to be left in peace, I’m obliged to take care of matters regarding the King’s gardens as well. No one in Potsdam came to mind whom I could entrust with the assignations of the budgets for the gardens. This, told the gardener Sello on the 28th of last months among other things.
Secondly, since mon cher compare can’t take care of these matters anymore, I have focused on the Head Gardner Krutisch, since he seems best suitable to see and judge whether the work and things which are billed to us have indeed been accomplished.
Thirdly, I haven’t given the all clear to the Head Gardener about the King’s other gardens at all. Instead, I’ve simply charged him with reporting steadily to me in my absence, with controlling the financial means assigned to him, and to be responsible to me in all matters.
Fourthly, all this may lead to the Supreme Chamber of the Bills providing money to Krutisch on his demand for his own bills; but as I have positioned myself to thoroughly investigate everything upon my future return, and would be ready to do this even sooner, should it prove to be necessary, all possible offense will have been prevented. Krutisch’s signature will only intermittendly be good for cash, as the current circumstances and times will demand it.
I hope that you will approve of both the arrangement and the detailed explanation I had the honour of providing here. If you can suggest something better that will serve the King and will be of use to him, I will accept it with greatest gratitude. Incidentally, by now my last two letters from the 4th and 7th of this month next to their attachments will by now have arrived.
I reccomend myself to your steadfast friendship, and assure you as I ask you that I will always be with the most sincere respect,
Monsieur et tres cher compere etc.
Aside from everything Mildred has already observed about this letter, I find it interesting that Fredersdorf evidently until a few months ago was in charge of balancing budgets for the gardens etc. I mean, that makes sense, given he was the Treasurer, but this correspondence really brings to life how many day to day responsibilities he did have, which now have to be accomplished by other people. And yes, how much respected he still is by his successor. Fritz not wanting him bothered by work concerns is in the same spirit as all those touching letters from a few years earlier.
Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 13, pages 2-3 - Translation
Fritz not wanting him bothered by work concerns is in the same spirit as all those touching letters from a few years earlier.
Totally. I keep repeating myself, but to have a source for Fritz talking about Fredersdorf is just the best, and even more so that it's in keeping with the letters.
Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 13, pages 2-3 - Translation
Ahhhhhh I am still way behind on everything (all my Very Long Meetings are *finally* done, but now I am frantically catching up on all the other RL stuff that I didn't get done this week) but I wanted to leave at least one comment because I enjoyed these so much :)
Firstly, since His Royal Majesty is concerned about mon cher compere due to the circumstances of your health, and wants you to be left in peace, I’m obliged to take care of matters regarding the King’s gardens as well. No one in Potsdam came to mind whom I could entrust with the assignations of the budgets for the gardens.
This is so endearing <3 (Also that the garden budget is a trusted responsibility WHICH FREDERSDORF WAS TAKING ON, ahem.)
Fritz not wanting him bothered by work concerns is in the same spirit as all those touching letters from a few years earlier.
Yes! Awwww.
Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 13, pages 2-3 - Translation
(Also that the garden budget is a trusted responsibility WHICH FREDERSDORF WAS TAKING ON, ahem.)
Exactly! Someone should nag me to publish this entire correspondence so we can TELL THE WORLD.
The problem is that researching is fun, fantasizing about the finished product is fun, taking your slapdash research and polishing it into a finished product is teeeeeedious. :( (Being nagged helps.)
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Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 13, pages 2-3 - Translation
Firstly, since His Royal Majesty is concerned about mon cher compere due to the circumstances of your health, and wants you to be left in peace, I’m obliged to take care of matters regarding the King’s gardens as well. No one in Potsdam came to mind whom I could entrust with the assignations of the budgets for the gardens. This, told the gardener Sello on the 28th of last months among other things.
Secondly, since mon cher compare can’t take care of these matters anymore, I have focused on the Head Gardner Krutisch, since he seems best suitable to see and judge whether the work and things which are billed to us have indeed been accomplished.
Thirdly, I haven’t given the all clear to the Head Gardener about the King’s other gardens at all. Instead, I’ve simply charged him with reporting steadily to me in my absence, with controlling the financial means assigned to him, and to be responsible to me in all matters.
Fourthly, all this may lead to the Supreme Chamber of the Bills providing money to Krutisch on his demand for his own bills; but as I have positioned myself to thoroughly investigate everything upon my future return, and would be ready to do this even sooner, should it prove to be necessary, all possible offense will have been prevented. Krutisch’s signature will only intermittendly be good for cash, as the current circumstances and times will demand it.
I hope that you will approve of both the arrangement and the detailed explanation I had the honour of providing here. If you can suggest something better that will serve the King and will be of use to him, I will accept it with greatest gratitude. Incidentally, by now my last two letters from the 4th and 7th of this month next to their attachments will by now have arrived.
I reccomend myself to your steadfast friendship, and assure you as I ask you that I will always be with the most sincere respect,
Monsieur et tres cher compere etc.
Aside from everything Mildred has already observed about this letter, I find it interesting that Fredersdorf evidently until a few months ago was in charge of balancing budgets for the gardens etc. I mean, that makes sense, given he was the Treasurer, but this correspondence really brings to life how many day to day responsibilities he did have, which now have to be accomplished by other people. And yes, how much respected he still is by his successor. Fritz not wanting him bothered by work concerns is in the same spirit as all those touching letters from a few years earlier.
Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 13, pages 2-3 - Translation
Those are some shoes Leining has to fill.
Fritz not wanting him bothered by work concerns is in the same spirit as all those touching letters from a few years earlier.
YES. <3
Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 13, pages 2-3 - Translation
Totally. I keep repeating myself, but to have a source for Fritz talking about Fredersdorf is just the best, and even more so that it's in keeping with the letters.
Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 13, pages 2-3 - Translation
Firstly, since His Royal Majesty is concerned about mon cher compere due to the circumstances of your health, and wants you to be left in peace, I’m obliged to take care of matters regarding the King’s gardens as well. No one in Potsdam came to mind whom I could entrust with the assignations of the budgets for the gardens.
This is so endearing <3 (Also that the garden budget is a trusted responsibility WHICH FREDERSDORF WAS TAKING ON, ahem.)
Fritz not wanting him bothered by work concerns is in the same spirit as all those touching letters from a few years earlier.
Yes! Awwww.
Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 13, pages 2-3 - Translation
Exactly! Someone should nag me to publish this entire correspondence so we can TELL THE WORLD.
The problem is that researching is fun, fantasizing about the finished product is fun, taking your slapdash research and polishing it into a finished product is teeeeeedious. :( (Being nagged helps.)