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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[selenak]

You must change this, for this is really original reasearch without which Peter and Fredersdorf will forever remain obscure and unfairly maligned, respectively, and no one will ever know about the Leinings and Gentzes and Andersons pov, ever. Mildred, imagine me singing (badly)

....History has its eyes on youuuuuuu...."

[mildred_of_midgard]

ROFL! Thank you, this is very encouraging (and helpful). I think having social support from salon will give my Frederician papers better odds than the post-academia, pre-salon papers worked on in total isolation.

*still laughing* :DD

P.S. Peter will still be obscure after this, I'm not expecting anything I write to be a bestseller, but at least the (correct) information will be out there for anyone who wants it, instead of languishing in archives and in random isolated sentences in random books.

And Fredersdorf's Wikipedia page will have to be updated! (That's very motivating.)