Traces in the Sand

Document 1 · Draft

11 January 1797

Berlin

Department of Foreign Affairs, the Prussian cabinet ministry, Berlin → Hoym, Schroetter and Goldbeck, the ministers for South Prussia and for New East Prussia, and the Grand Chancellor

Draft of a letter of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Berlin, 11 January 1797, to the minister Count von Hoym and in the same words to the minister Baron von Schroetter; a larger hand adds the Grand Chancellor von Goldbeck, and three fair copies are ordered. The department communicates in copy what the royal resident at Venice, Count von Cattaneo, has reported at the request of Anton Prusimski, a resident of the provinces acquired from the former Republic of Poland, who is at present staying at Venice. Of the two signatures the second is that of the minister Haugwitz. On the 12th all the letters went to the post.

One line per manuscript line, with broken words hyphenated and stray break marks removed. Editorial decisions are set out in About the edition.
  1. Berlin, d. 11. Januar 1797.
  2. An des Königl. p p Ministri Herrn Gra-
  3. fen von Hoym Excellenz,
  4. et in ſimili
  5. An des Königl. pp Ministri Frhrn
  6. von Schroetter Excellenz.
  7. Gr. in triplo md.
  8. Ew. Excellenz geben wir uns die Ehre
  9. hierneben zu gefälligem Gebrauch in Ab-
  10. schrift mitzutheilen, was der Königl. Re-
  11. sident Graf von Cattaneo zu Venedig von
  12. einem Eingeseßenen der Königl. von der
  13. ehemaligen Republik Pohlen acquirirten
  14. Provinzen, Namens Anton Prusimski,
  15. welcher sich gegenwärtig zu Venedig auf-
  16. hält, auf deßen Verlangen, einberichtet hat.
  17. Berlin, d. 11. Januar 1797.
  18. in simili des
  19. H. G[roß]K[anzlers] v. Goldbeck
  20. Excell.
  21. A[lvensleben]
  22. Haugwitz
  23. d 12. sämmtl. zur Post.