The love of an uncrowned queen, Sophie Dorothea, consort of George 1., and her correspondence with Philip Christopher, count Königsmarck (now first published from the originals) by . etters from the batches into which they are dividedin the original manuscripts, and to allow them to answerone another in due order. In the correspondence duringthe campaign of 1692, for instance, it will be seen thatKonigsmarcks letters and those of the Princess answer oneanother freely. I have also, to better elucidate the textand preserve the flow of the narrative, interspersed theletters with a reco
The love of an uncrowned queen, Sophie Dorothea, consort of George 1., and her correspondence with Philip Christopher, count Königsmarck (now first published from the originals) by . etters from the batches into which they are dividedin the original manuscripts, and to allow them to answerone another in due order. In the correspondence duringthe campaign of 1692, for instance, it will be seen thatKonigsmarcks letters and those of the Princess answer oneanother freely. I have also, to better elucidate the textand preserve the flow of the narrative, interspersed theletters with a record of current events gleaned from Coltsdespatches and other documents, and have annotated themwhere necessary. The letters hereafter given represent two-thirds of the whole ; the remainder has been omitted simplybecause it is made up mainly of repetition and unimportantdetails, and to quote it in full would be to weary and not toedify. For the first time these letters are published in anylanguage—if we except the few fragments (which wouldnot make more than six pages of this book) given by 1 In this task I was aided by the fragment of a key to the cypher foundwith the letters at THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, LUND, SWEDEN. ( Where the letters are J>reserved.) i HISTORY AND AUTHENTICITY OF THE LETTERS 129 Palmblad in a Swedish book long since out of print—andfor the first time they are now translated into English fromthe original manuscripts, edited, and compared and testedwith contemporary records. Palmblad, as we have mentioned, prefaced his extractswith a brief introduction, which it is well to examine indetail, since this is practically the only medium throughwhich the existence of the correspondence has hithertobeen known. W. F. Palmblad was a man of considerable literaryrepute, a professor of the University of Upsala, and a zeal-ous antiquarian. But he lacked one quality indispensableto the historian—accuracy ; he was too ready to jump toconclusions without first
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