Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 43

[cahn]

Still going! Still clearing Fritz's valet/chamberlain Fredersdorf's name from the calumny enshrined in wikipedia that he was dismissed for financial irregularities!

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Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 10, pages 2-3

[selenak]

Between packing for Berlin (tomorrow) and Portugal (Friday), it might take a while now till I can translate, but for now, my interpretation of the first paragraph is the same as yours. Also, VerXXX-
XX[r]tung = Verantwortung, responsibility. Buying the entire correspondence was such a brilliant idea on your part !

Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 10, pages 2-3

[mildred_of_midgard]

Ah, yes, the train connections! Fingers crossed!

for now, my interpretation of the first paragraph is the same as yours.

This is even better than the first paragraph of the main text, where he passes on Fredersdorf's letter! I consider the Fredersdorf embezzlement hypothesis conclusively refuted, not just much weaker than the alternative (which had to be constructed out of indirect evidence).

Woohoo! Now I just need to finish this correspondence and then go take the next steps toward producing an essay. (There are a lot more steps remaining, sadly, but I'm optimistic it might get written eventually.)

Also, VerXXX-
XX[r]tung = Verantwortung, responsibility.

So it is! Wow, he scraaawled that o.

Buying the entire correspondence was such a brilliant idea on your part !

Much like cahn introducing people with similar interests, my book-buying compulsion doesn't always pay off like this, but this time, it PAID OFF! (Buying the Kiekemal book without knowing if it talked about Fredersdorf also paid off bigtime.)

Safe travels! I'll keep the transcriptions coming, but I won't expect translations until you have time. (I'll maybe try to summarize at least a few high points for cahn, especially since deciphering is no longer taking up 100% of my time and energy. Though deciphering and reading still use such different parts of my brain that it's hard to zoom in and out and in and out and do both*, as you can see by my failure to get Verantwortung on the first two passes. And that is why it is soooo helpful to have you for the translations; I could get more than I do, but it would come at the cost of decipherment, and since I'm the only one deciphering...this is a good division of labor. :) )

* This is a development I was not expecting and was surprised by. I figured I would have at least my full German skills, such as they are, at my disposal when working through this correspondence, but no. I have to stop deciphering to start reading and vice versa.