cahn | Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 44

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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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From:

felis

Aw, thanks. It just made too much sense to me, too.

And yeah, the specific grief made more sense to me than King Fritz saying something like that about a general feeling of depression. (He also mentions to Duhan a month later that he'll regret both Jordan and Keyserlingk for the rest of his life.)

Also, even if it's not to Peter as hoped, it's still a significant find! As I said, no letters from Fritz to Knobelsdorff in Preuss, and this one would even be related to important events on the timeline!

From:

mildred_of_midgard

From a scholarly perspective, it's great! First class, outstanding! I was actually going to comment, "Wait, does this mean salon has found and identified the first surviving Fritz to Knobelsdorff letter ever?"

Some days I miss the Hohenzollern-Jahrbuch, I bet they would find all our findings notable and publish them. ;) As it is, I am not up on modern German academic journals enough to identify good candidates for the papers I want to publish, and finding one/some is going to be its whole own thing. (Suggestions welcome.)

From a fannish perspective...well, the grief may not follow me for years, but you will have to forgive me at least a day or two of regret. ;)

And yeah, the specific grief made more sense to me than King Fritz saying something like that about a general feeling of depression.

Yes, this, exactly!

From:

felis

From a fannish perspective...well, the grief may not follow me for years, but you will have to forgive me at least a day or two of regret. ;)

OH, I know! The Peter/Fritz narrative swerved from pleasing secret reconciliation to angsty letter-finding, totally without permission. Not cool. The perils of historical fannishness.