Nah, what I have is 1,500 pages of papers belonging to the Keith and Knyphausen families, from the Aurich archive, and they saved letters from important people like monarchs (and Algarotti, Maupertuis, Jordan, etc.) FW2 happens to have written a letter to Peter's son Carl Ernst (who, let's remember, survived until 1822).
At this point, I'm still just trying to read as much quantity as possible and not get bogged down in the stuff I can't sight-read; I'll come back to the difficult ones when I've had more practice. And then if I have to do my Sudoku/crossword-style technique of writing down XXXXX and slowly filling them in via cross-comparison of individual characters, I will. Hopefully I can get proficient enough just by reading, though!
ETA: But the point is, you guys should be pleased that this means I'm working my way through the Keith family papers, because it means progress is being made on the essay research again! (Fredersdorf will be next, because I have a lot of Kurrent to read for him too. It'll be harder, because the quantity is smaller and the quality of my decipherment will be more important, which is why I'm practicing on Peter first.)
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Re: New quota and yelling
Date: 2024-01-28 04:28 pm (UTC)At this point, I'm still just trying to read as much quantity as possible and not get bogged down in the stuff I can't sight-read; I'll come back to the difficult ones when I've had more practice. And then if I have to do my Sudoku/crossword-style technique of writing down XXXXX and slowly filling them in via cross-comparison of individual characters, I will. Hopefully I can get proficient enough just by reading, though!
ETA: But the point is, you guys should be pleased that this means I'm working my way through the Keith family papers, because it means progress is being made on the essay research again! (Fredersdorf will be next, because I have a lot of Kurrent to read for him too. It'll be harder, because the quantity is smaller and the quality of my decipherment will be more important, which is why I'm practicing on Peter first.)