I really like this letter! I'm glad you told us about it.
I immediately liked it as well. This in general seems to be an excellent source for Georgian material, with its scans of the original letters and the transcriptions. Including schoolboy essays by future G3 and remarks on history books by his wife Queen Charlotte.
G3 - as mentioned previously, the first Hannover King to be born in GB and grow up with English as his first language, who famously said "I glory in the name of Briton" and didn't visit Hannover, nonetheless did care for the Electorate (this I knew, he continued financing the university of Göttingen which had been a G2 foundation and during G3's reign became THE leading university for German science until the Nazis arrived - it still boasts of more Noble prize winners among its students than any other), spoke German as a second language (this I didn't) and in his own remarks and essays on German subjects wrote those in German. And on French subjects in French. I'm just saying, your discarded King comes across as a well educated multilingual fellow, American Colonists!
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Re: Fritz of Wales to G3
Date: 2024-06-04 01:51 pm (UTC)I immediately liked it as well. This in general seems to be an excellent source for Georgian material, with its scans of the original letters and the transcriptions. Including schoolboy essays by future G3 and remarks on history books by his wife Queen Charlotte.
G3 - as mentioned previously, the first Hannover King to be born in GB and grow up with English as his first language, who famously said "I glory in the name of Briton" and didn't visit Hannover, nonetheless did care for the Electorate (this I knew, he continued financing the university of Göttingen which had been a G2 foundation and during G3's reign became THE leading university for German science until the Nazis arrived - it still boasts of more Noble prize winners among its students than any other), spoke German as a second language (this I didn't) and in his own remarks and essays on German subjects wrote those in German. And on French subjects in French. I'm just saying, your discarded King comes across as a well educated multilingual fellow, American Colonists!