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William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts, 1542-1967, bulk 1770-1900

14.22 Linear Feet
The collection, a part of the William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana, consists of correspondence, documents, playscripts, and other writings by or relating to Goethe and his work. The major strength of the manuscript collection is its documentation of Goethe's literary reception in England and America in the nineteenth century. There are 25 letters and manuscripts in Goethe's hand, and several Faust-related items. Authors represented prominently besides Goethe include Thomas Carlyle, Frank Claudy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Faust collector Georg Ehrhardt, Walther Wolfgang von Goethe, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, University of Illinois professor Julius Goebel, Anna Jameson, Johann Caspar Lavater, Friederich von Müller, Henry Crabb Robinson, Friedrich Schiller, Carl Frederick Schreiber, Horatio Robinson Storer, Bayard Taylor, Marie (Hansen) Taylor, Karl August Ludwig Philipp Varnhagen von Ense, and Albert Wünsch.
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Box and Folder List, 1542-1967 7.51 Linear Feet

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    William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts, 1542-1967, bulk 1770-1900 14.22 Linear Feet

    Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
    The collection, a part of the William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana, consists of correspondence, documents, playscripts, and other writings by or relating to Goethe and his work. The major strength of the manuscript collection is its documentation of Goethe's literary reception in England and America in the nineteenth century. There are 25 letters and manuscripts in Goethe's hand, and several Faust-related items. Authors represented prominently besides Goethe include Thomas Carlyle, Frank Claudy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Faust collector Georg Ehrhardt, Walther Wolfgang von Goethe, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, University of Illinois professor Julius Goebel, Anna Jameson, Johann Caspar Lavater, Friederich von Müller, Henry Crabb Robinson, Friedrich Schiller, Carl Frederick Schreiber, Horatio Robinson Storer, Bayard Taylor, Marie (Hansen) Taylor, Karl August Ludwig Philipp Varnhagen von Ense, and Albert Wünsch.

      Letter to the Councillors of Würzburg, 1542 Oct 3 Box 1, Folder 19

      1 p., with address.
      "The knight of the iron hand," the
      German hero about whom Goethe
      wrote his play, Götz von
      Berlichingen.
      Requesting to delay the matter of
      certain fiefs which he and his
      brothers were to receive.
      Body of letter and signature in the
      handwriting of a secretary.
      Given in honor of Curt von Faber du
      Faur by Herman W. Liebert, October
      1958.

      1. Box and Folder List, 1542-1967
      2. BERLICHINGEN, GÖTZ VON, 1480-1562