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: Life of AW

[selenak]

As ever you're on the case, and a good thing, too, because I'm still swamped. Also: methinks both Freylinghausen and Franke met poor old Gundling, and one of them had a chat with him during one of those FW family vacation meals where Gundling was treated as an almost family member - just a few days before another round of abuse, of course. So the diaries might have more on this as well.