They bid on two autographed, signed letters (1785/86) from Elisabeth Oelgard von Linstow, b. on 12. September 1742 (baptism on 17. December) in Belitz / Mecklenburg as the daughter of Captain Heinrich Levin von Linstow (1709-1750) and Sophie Agnes, née. von Lowtzow (*1710).
Location: Wesselstorf (today OT von Selpin; the Wesselstorf estate was then owned by the von Grävenitz family, before that it belonged to the von Bassewitz family).
Aimed at her brother, the chamberlain and master hunter in Plön, Christoph Hartwig von Linstow (born at the 14. September 1740 in Belitz, Mecklenburg, died. 12. April 1823 in Hørsholm), which is listed on the Danish Wikipedia. A famous son of the recipient was the architect Hans Ditlev Franciscus von Linstow (* 4. May 1787 in Hørsholm; † 10. June 1851 in Christiania), builder of the Royal Oslo Castle including large parts of the park and Karl Johans gate.
1.) Letter from Wesselstorf, 3. June 1785. Scope: 3 of 4 pages described (19.2 x 11.8 cm).
Contents:Thanks for the money sent, wishes for health and greetings from the mother.
Then in detail about an expected collar: "What are you going to say, best brother! WEN Regardless of the above gift, I still remember the necklace that I still expected from your kindness. That's a lot, that's shameful, you'll say. Dearest brother! and you are right. How should I apologize? I know not but with the vanity of my sex; Although it's a shame that, given my years, I can't yet overcome such things."
Signed"EO of Linstow."
2.) Letter from Wesselstorf, 29. November 1786. Scope: 2 of 4 pages described (23.3 x 19 cm).
Excerpts: "... that the good Countess and the Countess here are very weak this year. are; Meanwhile (!) our Dalwitz Countess lives again and is having fun in Rostock now that the widowed Duchess is the prince there. Pallast, and the old Basswitz house has also been well repaired. The reigning rule there will also be carried out (?) in the near future, because the comparison with this city is almost complete. "There will therefore be all sorts of amusements in the form of Comedies Illuminatius and the like, and I really wish that my dear Hirschhollmers could also take part in them."
Signed"Lisette".
Assignment to sender and recipient according to notes from descendants in the estate.
Condition:Without envelope. letters slightly stained; into the. very well preserved. Please also note the pictures!
At the same time, I am offering further letters and documents from the von Linstow family, including a later letter from Elisabeth Oelgard von Linstow as a conventual in Dobbertin!
Internal note: Linstow folder 10
About the von Linstow family (source: wikipedia):
Linstow is the name of a Mecklenburg nobility with the same name in Linstow.
Story
Manor house in Linstow: The family appears in documents for the first time on the 22nd. July 1281 in Rostock with the knight Gherardus de Linstowe.[1] The family line begins with the knight Heinrich von Linstow, who is mentioned in documents from 1301 to 1318. The family still exists today in Germany and in some strong lines in Denmark. She was born there on the 28th. January 1777 the Danish nobility naturalization was granted.
Anna von Linstow, b. von Levetzow entered the Dobbertin monastery as a widow in 1500 and bequeathed 100 guilders to the monastery for her daughters Dorothea and Anna, who lived there. From 1682 to 1704, Ilsabe Lucie von Linstow was a conventual in the Dobbertin monastery.
In the registration book of the Dobbertin monastery there are eight entries from daughters of the von Linstow families from Bellin, Diestelow and Vietschow from the years 1736–1814 for admission to the local aristocratic women's monastery. Around 1880, the von Linstow family had their Linstow manor house, which was probably built during the Thirty Years' War, rebuilt.
The estate in Klocksin belonged until the 14th century. century of the family.
Damerow Castle and Estate or Neu Damerow was family property from 1605 to 1784.
Coat of arms: The coat of arms is divided into silver and black (oldest seal from 3. March 1325).[2] On the helmet with black and silver covers two virgins growing forward, one white, the other black, each holding a green wreath in their outstretched outer hands and one in the middle together.
Well-known namesakes
Conrad (von) Linstow, provost of the Dobbertin monastery in 1317[4]
Hans (Ernst Johann) von Linstow (1523–1592), heir to Bellin, provisionalist in the Dobbertin monastery from 1569 to 1583, in 1571 involved as a visitor in the elimination of the Catholic faith and the dissolution of the Dobbertin nunnery.[5]
Georg von Linstow (1593–1650), monastery captain in Dobbertin from 1622 to 1628, Wallenstein's appellate judge in Güstrow in 1630.[6]
Heinrich Wilhelm von Linstow (2nd January 1709 to 29. April 1759), Hanoverian colonel from the Inf.-Reg. Linstow, wounded and captured in the Battle of Bergen, died in Frankfurt[7]
August von Linstow (1775–1848), Danish district administrator for the Sonderburg district
Hans Ditlev Franciscus von Linstow (Hans Ditlev Frants von Linstow; 1787–1851), Norwegian architect
Hans Otfried von Linstow (1899–1944), German colonel and resistance fighter
Hartwig von Linstow (1810–1884), Danish-German administrative lawyer, acting president of the government of the Duchy of Lauenburg in Ratzeburg
Hugo von Linstow (1821–1899), Prussian officer, co-founder in 1869 and 1st Chairman of the HEROLD. Association for Heraldry, Genealogy and Related Sciences in Berlin.
Adolf von Linstow (1832–1902), Prussian lieutenant general
Waldemar von Linstow (1859–1925), Prussian major general
Otto von Linstow (medical doctor) (1842–1916), German military doctor and zoologist
Otto von Linstow (geologist) (1872–1929), German geologist