I mean, Lehndorff isn't above rewriting the past to a certain extent as we all do with hindsight.
Yeah, fair.
You should definitely check Volume 2 about 1756, btw, I remember there being even more emo about the whole Hotham matter.
Incidentally, if you're looking for Lehndorff's James Keith and Eva passage, that's under October 1758 in Volume 1.
Nice, thanks! Yeah, it's becoming increasingly clear I need to read at least the first two volumes, there's too much good stuff in here.
For example: Remember when Fritz decided to leave Swiss Michell, who'd never been to Prussia and possibly hadn't taken the oath of loyalty, as legation secretary in London, rather than send Peter as envoy or promote Michell to envoy? And I said that that means Michell did *not* beat Peter in direct competition? Well, that's true for 1747, but at the beginning of 1756, when Fritz is negotiating with the Brits but before he realizes that instead of preventing a war, he's started one, Lehndorff reports that Michell got promoted to envoy. Now, Lehndorff may be reporting an inaccurate rumor, I'd have to do more research, but if he heard that rumor, Peter presumably heard it too. Ouch.
The thing I specifically picked up Lehndorff to find and went to 1756 is a memory that you said something about Lehndorff having not entirely positive feelings about being left behind because of his disability, when everyone went to war without him, even though he was not super gung ho about war. And that is so entirely relevant to Peter "I'd rather be reading books! But I can't stomach the humilation!" Keith that I need to find exactly what he said for comparison. (So much of my research is turning out to be not information about Peter directly, but the world and the people around him, for context.)
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Re: Lehndorff is so emo
Date: 2024-09-17 01:21 pm (UTC)Yeah, fair.
You should definitely check Volume 2 about 1756, btw, I remember there being even more emo about the whole Hotham matter.
Incidentally, if you're looking for Lehndorff's James Keith and Eva passage, that's under October 1758 in Volume 1.
Nice, thanks! Yeah, it's becoming increasingly clear I need to read at least the first two volumes, there's too much good stuff in here.
For example: Remember when Fritz decided to leave Swiss Michell, who'd never been to Prussia and possibly hadn't taken the oath of loyalty, as legation secretary in London, rather than send Peter as envoy or promote Michell to envoy? And I said that that means Michell did *not* beat Peter in direct competition? Well, that's true for 1747, but at the beginning of 1756, when Fritz is negotiating with the Brits but before he realizes that instead of preventing a war, he's started one, Lehndorff reports that Michell got promoted to envoy. Now, Lehndorff may be reporting an inaccurate rumor, I'd have to do more research, but if he heard that rumor, Peter presumably heard it too. Ouch.
The thing I specifically picked up Lehndorff to find and went to 1756 is a memory that you said something about Lehndorff having not entirely positive feelings about being left behind because of his disability, when everyone went to war without him, even though he was not super gung ho about war. And that is so entirely relevant to Peter "I'd rather be reading books! But I can't stomach the humilation!" Keith that I need to find exactly what he said for comparison. (So much of my research is turning out to be not information about Peter directly, but the world and the people around him, for context.)