Still going! Still clearing Fritz's valet/chamberlain Fredersdorf's name from the calumny enshrined in wikipedia that he was dismissed for financial irregularities!
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.
(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
Date: 2023-05-12 05:28 am (UTC)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
Date: 2023-05-12 05:34 am (UTC)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.)