I received your much appreciated letter from the 10th together with the billl from Baumbach & Dimpfel in Hamburg about the last twelve baskets filled with Champagne which have finally been sent. I will add this little item to the overall bill about the 2/M (two thousand?) bottles Champagne which I have found among Glasow’s papers, and will account for the overall sum once I received the transport bill from the Hamburg boatsman who is shipping the twelve baskets. The order to pay the boatsman has already been given in Berlin.
The letter from her Grace the Margravine of Ansbach has been given to the King by me immediately.
The instructions which mon chere Compere has given to me in your last letter from the 13th I acknowledge with most obliged gratitude, and I will be even more obliged if you’d continue to issue them should the occasions arise. Moreover, I would gladly follow your suggestion to let Secret Counciller Koppen hand out the monthly sums of disposition and to let him send the rest in cash here, except that I’ve already arranged for Chamber Servant Hundertmarck to keep issuing these sums in Berlin and Potsdam, and for the rest to be transferred to the general war chest by assignment. In order to ensure that Mr. Hundermarck accomplishes this task well, and to ascertain the payment definitely has been made, I have charged him to issue the receipts in my name and to send me the originals so I may review them. This way, I am covered, and Hundertmarck doesn’t do more than a commissioner, similar to the job Mr. Kosack (could this be Koppen again?) has done when reviewing the casket* sums in Berlin handed out earlier. As for the transfor of payment by assignation, I have already written his Excellency Herr von Boden, and have cleared up everything with the local Office of War Expenses, so that I’m in this aspect covered as well in these current uncertain times.
I think I will be able to do without Hofrat Schirmeister, since it has pleased you to provide me with explanations regarding the various court offices. On the other hand, his Excellency Herr von Boden as well as Hofstaatsrentmeister Buchholtz have aided me with many good news. In my opinion, he (presumably Schirmeister)can’t teach me about the managment and arrangement of the administration, either, since the direction the later has just been copied from you, and Hofrat Schirmeister has never been allowed to meddle in this, which I agree with.
As for the 252 Reichstaler which have been listed in the old debts list for wardrobe and for tea and coffee, I can just now see in the list that mon cher Compere has already reimbursed Völcker for them. However, I can’t find any specification or receipt of this item among the writings available to me here, and thus I conclude Völcker may have partially or totally kept the payment. Could you do me the favour and ask the Italian Domenico who has the largest demand to make whether he has been paid? The apothocary Bertholz has had to distribute some of this money around, following Völcker’s orders. He may perhaps know where the specification and the bills from these 252 Reichstaler have ended up.
His Royal Majesty is, God be thanked, healthy and well. I'm crossing my fingers so the good effect you felt after the cure by the Silesian doctor may continue. I'll chide my wife for her lack of attention, and will demonstrate through all the proofs of friendship you could possibly demand of me that I am, most sincerely,
*Casket = Schatulle = what a lot of our sources like Lehndorff and Nikolai etc. said Glasow was newly in charge of. Fritz’ personal expenses from his direct household as far as I recall.
The Margravine of Ansbach is Friederike, the first of Fritz’ sisters to get married, who went from being a brave girl able to cheek FW about the bad food he made his kids eat (cue FW throwing the dishes at Fritz and Wilhelmine) to being a very depressed woman (her husband was a louse). She and Wilhelmine were somewhat competitive for some years when tensions were high between Fritz and Wilhelmine in the early 1740s.
Thank you! Any Teuton-picking, or are you saving that for a separate passthrough?
I swear, the last time I transcribed these letters, I thought I had it down except for a handful of particularly tricky words, and then I'm going through again this week and finding more and more errors. :/ On the one hand, I guess it means I'm getting better at this. On the other hand, eep. On the third hand, I managed to solve a couple of the especially tricky words this time around! "Souportration" is "Souportination", i.e. "Subordination"; it's the only thing that makes sense.
Mr. Kosack (could this be Koppen again?)
No, the handwriting is pretty clear on both. Interestingly, Kosack is the name of the man to whom Fredersdorf leased Zernikow in 1753.
The Margravine of Ansbach is Friederike, the first of Fritz’ sisters to get married, who went from being a brave girl able to cheek FW about the bad food he made his kids eat (cue FW throwing the dishes at Fritz and Wilhelmine) to being a very depressed woman (her husband was a louse).
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Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 5, take 2
I received your much appreciated letter from the 10th together with the billl from Baumbach & Dimpfel in Hamburg about the last twelve baskets filled with Champagne which have finally been sent. I will add this little item to the overall bill about the 2/M (two thousand?) bottles Champagne which I have found among Glasow’s papers, and will account for the overall sum once I received the transport bill from the Hamburg boatsman who is shipping the twelve baskets. The order to pay the boatsman has already been given in Berlin.
The letter from her Grace the Margravine of Ansbach has been given to the King by me immediately.
The instructions which mon chere Compere has given to me in your last letter from the 13th I acknowledge with most obliged gratitude, and I will be even more obliged if you’d continue to issue them should the occasions arise. Moreover, I would gladly follow your suggestion to let Secret Counciller Koppen hand out the monthly sums of disposition and to let him send the rest in cash here, except that I’ve already arranged for Chamber Servant Hundertmarck to keep issuing these sums in Berlin and Potsdam, and for the rest to be transferred to the general war chest by assignment. In order to ensure that Mr. Hundermarck accomplishes this task well, and to ascertain the payment definitely has been made, I have charged him to issue the receipts in my name and to send me the originals so I may review them. This way, I am covered, and Hundertmarck doesn’t do more than a commissioner, similar to the job Mr. Kosack (could this be Koppen again?) has done when reviewing the casket* sums in Berlin handed out earlier. As for the transfor of payment by assignation, I have already written his Excellency Herr von Boden, and have cleared up everything with the local Office of War Expenses, so that I’m in this aspect covered as well in these current uncertain times.
I think I will be able to do without Hofrat Schirmeister, since it has pleased you to provide me with explanations regarding the various court offices. On the other hand, his Excellency Herr von Boden as well as Hofstaatsrentmeister Buchholtz have aided me with many good news. In my opinion, he (presumably Schirmeister)can’t teach me about the managment and arrangement of the administration, either, since the direction the later has just been copied from you, and Hofrat Schirmeister has never been allowed to meddle in this, which I agree with.
As for the 252 Reichstaler which have been listed in the old debts list for wardrobe and for tea and coffee, I can just now see in the list that mon cher Compere has already reimbursed Völcker for them. However, I can’t find any specification or receipt of this item among the writings available to me here, and thus I conclude Völcker may have partially or totally kept the payment. Could you do me the favour and ask the Italian Domenico who has the largest demand to make whether he has been paid? The apothocary Bertholz has had to distribute some of this money around, following Völcker’s orders. He may perhaps know where the specification and the bills from these 252 Reichstaler have ended up.
His Royal Majesty is, God be thanked, healthy and well. I'm crossing my fingers so the good effect you felt after the cure by the Silesian doctor may continue. I'll chide my wife for her lack of attention, and will demonstrate through all the proofs of friendship you could possibly demand of me that I am, most sincerely,
*Casket = Schatulle = what a lot of our sources like Lehndorff and Nikolai etc. said Glasow was newly in charge of. Fritz’ personal expenses from his direct household as far as I recall.
The Margravine of Ansbach is Friederike, the first of Fritz’ sisters to get married, who went from being a brave girl able to cheek FW about the bad food he made his kids eat (cue FW throwing the dishes at Fritz and Wilhelmine) to being a very depressed woman (her husband was a louse). She and Wilhelmine were somewhat competitive for some years when tensions were high between Fritz and Wilhelmine in the early 1740s.
Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 5, take 2
I swear, the last time I transcribed these letters, I thought I had it down except for a handful of particularly tricky words, and then I'm going through again this week and finding more and more errors. :/ On the one hand, I guess it means I'm getting better at this. On the other hand, eep. On the third hand, I managed to solve a couple of the especially tricky words this time around! "Souportration" is "Souportination", i.e. "Subordination"; it's the only thing that makes sense.
Mr. Kosack (could this be Koppen again?)
No, the handwriting is pretty clear on both. Interestingly, Kosack is the name of the man to whom Fredersdorf leased Zernikow in 1753.
The Margravine of Ansbach is Friederike, the first of Fritz’ sisters to get married, who went from being a brave girl able to cheek FW about the bad food he made his kids eat (cue FW throwing the dishes at Fritz and Wilhelmine) to being a very depressed woman (her husband was a louse).
:(
Thank you for the reminder.