...You guys, screenshots coming soon, but the handwriting is pretty identical to the Fredersdorf letters ("alle", for example), and the signature is a much closer match for the Fredersdorf letters than the Gröben letters! It's definitely Fritz, and it may be 1750s Fritz. (Wouldn't that turn everything we thought we knew about their relationship on its head.)
That said, aside from the signature, I haven't done a close comparison of 1730s vs. 1750s handwriting--and I haven't checked the dates on the Fredersdorf letters either, since the facsimiles don't have them, and I'll have to cross-check the text to assign them dates. There may not be a big difference between 1734 and 1745, say. I'll see if I can find a 1750s Fredersdorf facsimile, figure out which of the Gröben letters Fritz wrote and which he dictated, and see if there are noticeable differences. (There may not be.)
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Re: Letter from Fritz...to Peter?
Date: 2023-06-23 04:49 pm (UTC)That said, aside from the signature, I haven't done a close comparison of 1730s vs. 1750s handwriting--and I haven't checked the dates on the Fredersdorf letters either, since the facsimiles don't have them, and I'll have to cross-check the text to assign them dates. There may not be a big difference between 1734 and 1745, say. I'll see if I can find a 1750s Fredersdorf facsimile, figure out which of the Gröben letters Fritz wrote and which he dictated, and see if there are noticeable differences. (There may not be.)