Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 44

[cahn]

Not only are these posts still going, there is now (more) original research going on in them deciphering and translating letters in archives that apparently no one has bothered to look at before?? (Which has now conclusively exonerated Fritz's valet/chamberlain Fredersdorf from the charge that he was dismissed because of financial irregularities and died shortly thereafter "ashamed of his lost honor," as Wikipedia would have it. I'M JUST SAYING.)

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Re: The two letters from Glasow to Fredersdorf - Translation

[selenak]

Which is a valid way of expressing the same thing! To be fair, I didn't translate (beyond one paragraph) Leining's most boring letter which is all about the bills otherwise, but still, even that one has a more personal couple of sentences.