Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 48

[cahn]

Some awesome historical RPF candyheartsex stories for meeeeee (or by me, in one tiny case) with historical characters! I'm just going to note whom the stories are about here. They are all so good!!

Anne Boleyn/Catherine of Aragorn
Frances Howard and Frances Coke (or: James I's court was basically a HOTBED of scandal, omg)

And two that are also historical RPF but also consistent with the Jude Morgan novel The King's Touch, which is an excellent historical novel narrated by James ("Jemmy") Scott, Duke of Monmouth, Charles II's illegitimate son.

Princess Henrietta of England (Charles II's sister and wife of Philippe I duc d'Orleans)
James of Monmouth/William/Mary

Comments

Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 3, take 2

[mildred_of_midgard]

Another question for my fellow decipherer:



What is that final character and what does this word mean? Context: "Es hat mir der Cellermeister groX geschrieben"

The Kurrent 'b' in this hand doesn't look like that, being rounded at the bottom rather than the top:



the Latin 'h' *does* look like that,



but the 'r' in this word is clearly Kurrent (right?), and since the 'g' is lowercase (right? I'm questioning everything now), it doesn't look to me like it would be the name of the Cellermeister written in Latin script. But a name would make more sense than "grob" here, although "grob" is not completely nonsensical in the way that "krumm" was in a previous letter.

The 'o' could also be an 'a', in this hand; he doesn't do the extra stroke after the 'a' that's common in Kurrent, so 'o' and 'a' are a lot more susceptible to overlap. But making this an 'a' doesn't help me read the final character(s).

Any ideas what's going on with this word?

Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 3, take 2

[felis]

Box bills tell me there was a "Kellermeister Grohe" in 1750! So I guess it's the same guy and it is indeed a name, which explains the Latin h, if not the lower case g. ;)

Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 3, take 2

[mildred_of_midgard]

Your ability to remember the box bills exist and willingness to keep checking them is indispensable! I need to start doing both those things. :D

Grohe it is! (That 'r', though. Oh well. No one promised me consistency.)