1740 and All That

While the estimable Dr. Schmidt(-Lötzen) only had the chance to publish four volumes of Lehndorff's diaries in book form, with volume IV covering the time until and including 1784, he did continue to publish his translations in the journal "Masovia" (where the first four volumes also made their debut in separate installments before being collected in book volumes), up to and including the year 1787.

( 1785: Twilight of the Fritz )


( 1785: Meeting Lafayette )

( 1786: Catherine the Great's true love rival revealed! )


( 1786: The Death of Kings )

( 1786-1787: New King, new job opportunities? )

( Kalckreuth: The return )

Soon, Lehndorff has other worries, though.

( On nearly losing your child (again) )


Karl makes it out of the sickness alive, though. Lehndorff's wife and his two other children get smallpox the same year, but survive as well, so there is more fretting and worrying, and then once he doesn't have worry about their lives anymore, Heinrich gives up and decides to go to Rheinsberg.

( 1787: Death of a Princess, Retirement for a Prince )

This would be a good place to end this write up, but unfortunately, there's still a decades-in-the-making rant to go through. It's one long outburst about how much life has screwed Lehndorff over, and thus he concludes 1787:

( Money can't buy you love, especially if you keep not getting it )