Well, I did, and I definitely agonized over the identification as Fritz! It's signed "Fri..i.h", and the Gröben letters have signatures with clearly visible "d"s and other letters, *but*, the "F" and "h" look so much alike I went with it. It may be a different Friedrich, but "Georg Wenzeslaus" it is not. ;)
It would also have to be the only letter signed "Frederick" from a different Frederick in a stack of 11 consecutive letters signed "Federic", "Fr", "Fri...i.h", and "Friedrich", all of which I'm taking to be from our Fritz (who is more likely to sign using just his first name than most people?)
I will screenshot and upload the signatures from Gröben, Richter, and Peter letters for comparison in a bit, so you can see for yourself.
Plus I noticed "dahr" for "da" in both this letter and Richter--but I will start going over spelling and handwriting comparisons in more detail shortly, and report back!
(Was "guht" a normal 18th century spelling? Fritz in the Gröben letters tends to put his "h"s before his "t"s, where I'm used to seeing them after the "t" in pre-spelling reform German, and we've got "guht" here, all through the Gröben letters, and all through Richter...but maybe that was normal?)
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Re: Letter from Fritz...to Peter?
Date: 2023-06-23 04:30 pm (UTC)It would also have to be the only letter signed "Frederick" from a different Frederick in a stack of 11 consecutive letters signed "Federic", "Fr", "Fri...i.h", and "Friedrich", all of which I'm taking to be from our Fritz (who is more likely to sign using just his first name than most people?)
I will screenshot and upload the signatures from Gröben, Richter, and Peter letters for comparison in a bit, so you can see for yourself.
Plus I noticed "dahr" for "da" in both this letter and Richter--but I will start going over spelling and handwriting comparisons in more detail shortly, and report back!
(Was "guht" a normal 18th century spelling? Fritz in the Gröben letters tends to put his "h"s before his "t"s, where I'm used to seeing them after the "t" in pre-spelling reform German, and we've got "guht" here, all through the Gröben letters, and all through Richter...but maybe that was normal?)