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.)

Comments

Re: Letter from Fritz...to Peter?

[selenak]

Naturally. I immediately had the head canon that another reason why Peter keeps this letter till his death through all the toils and troubles of exile etc. isn't just that it expresses emotional closeness but that after this summons, they had sex for the first time. :)

Re: Letter from Fritz...to Peter?

[mildred_of_midgard]

Oh, speaking of letters he did and didn't hang on to, it just occurred to me that what we *don't* have are the 1750 nice letter from Fritz and the 1753 one with the invitation to camp. The ones that were presumably in French and read aloud.

Interesting.