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4 p. ; 21 x 34 cm.
In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand.
Printed in Weimar Ausgabe.

3 p. ; 21 x 34 cm.
In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand.
Apparently the ms. for the printed
letter in Riemer's "Briefe von und
an Goethe", p. 169. Not in Weimar
Ausgabe.

2 p. ; 21 x 34 cm.
In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand.
The Weimar Ausgabe prints a longer
letter in v. 47, p. 26 from a rough
draft in Johann August Friedrich
John's hand. This is probably a
copy by Riemer in preparation for
an edition of Goethe's letters:
Briefe von und an Goethe, Leipzig,
1846.

4 p. ; 21 x 34 cm.
In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand.
Published in Weimar Ausgabe, v. 42,
p. 107.

4 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.
The last part of the letter has
apparently been lost.

4 p. ; 21 cm.
The complete letter is printed in Karl
Theodor Gaedertz, Goethes Minchen,
auf Grund ungedruckter Briefe, 1887,
p. 46-60.

8 numb. l. ; 28 cm.
Typescript (original).
Article about Huth's translation of
Goethe's Faust I.

2 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.

13 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.
Chiefly an appreciation of G. H.
Lewes' work, Life of Goethe.

3 p. ; 14 x 19 cm.
2 1/4p. by Mrs. Herder, 1 3/4p. by
J. G. Herder.

1 p. ; 12 x 20 cm. With envelope.

1 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.
Personal black seal attached.

1 p. ; 22 x 18 cm.
Signed: G.
In Goethe's handwriting, with note
in upper left hand corner in
another hand: "Von Göthen, als er
wollte, dass ich den Artikel über
die Aufführung des Hamlets[?]
unterdrücken sollte."
In upper right hand corner: "79"
-- i.e. 1779?

2 p. ; 12 x 20 cm.

3 p. ; 20 x 25 cm.

3 p. ; 20 x 25 cm.

3 p. ; 12 x 20 cm.

3 p. ; 13 x 20 cm.

3 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.
Personal red seal attached.

3 p. ; 18 x 23 cm.

2 p. ; 12 x 20 cm.

1 p. ; 18 x 23 cm.

1 p. ; 18 x 22 cm.
Personal red seal attached.

2 p. ; 12 x 20 cm.

1 p. ; 18 x 23 cm.

3 p. ; 18 x 23 cm.
Personal red seal attached.

1 p. ; 18 cm.
Signed in the same handwriting: Martha
Day Porter, Rebecca Taylor Porter.
Directing their executor to give their
copy of Schiller's Wallenstein,
translated by Coleridge, autographed
by Wadsworth, to Rev. Wm. B. Clarke,
Yale 1849, Durham Conn., or to his
daughters Helen MacGregor Clarke and
Jane Baker Clarke.
Removed from J. C. F. v. Schiller,
Wallenstein, translated by S. T.
Coleridge, London, 1800, in the Speck
Collection.

3 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.
With impressed seal.
Enclosure: Twenty-seven lines from
Martin's translation of Goethe's
Faust, pt.I, beginning "Him who
dares name", dedicated to Hermann
Kindt.
Kindt is the author of Goethe's Faust
in England, 1874.

3 p. ; 11 x 17 cm.
Signed: Fanny Stirling.

1 p. ; 20 x 33 cm.
With address: An Herrn Buchhändler
Dietrich in Göttingen.
Personal red seal attached.

1 p. ; 12 x 18 cm.
Autograph poem, signed: Goethe
First printed in Ost und West, Prag,
1837; later in Weimar Ausgabe with
title: An Friedrich Förster; also
in Förster's posthumous papers,
with title: Drei Begegnungen.
With an explanatory autograph note
by Förster.

2 p. ; 11 x 17 cm.

1 p. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Dorer-Egloff, Swiss official and
literary historian, was one of the
foremost Goethe scholars of his
time.

4 p. ; 12 x 21 cm.
Accompanying a contribution to the
Literatur Blätter, which apparently
was a passage from her late husband,
Jean Paul Richter's Gedankenbuch,
praising Goethe's genius.

3 p. ; 10.5 x 13 cm.
A picture of Charlotte Kestner will
be sent on request to Mrs. Taylor
by the nephew, Dr. Kestner.

3 p. ; 11 x 18 cm., with envelope.
Both letter and envelope with black
border.
Landor excuses his delay in replying
for the reason: "I could not, by
any exertion of ingenuity, decipher
your signature. Do you write your
name in such a manner, that nobody
may attempt forgery? ... I remember
to have red[!], fifty years ago,
Theseus, a Monodrama by Stolberg.
Of course I mean in the translation.
It is the only Greek modern thing I
ever saw. Goethe is so little
hellenic that he represents
Iphegenia (a girl of 12 or 13)
arguing on the injustice done to
the sex in various ways. His
tragedy is insufferably dull."

3 p. ; 13 x 18 cm.
Signed: Jean Paul Fr. Richter.

4 p. ; 11 x 19 cm.
Apparently directed to a German
publishing house, which had
requested her to translate a volume
of correspondence. She explains her
unwillingness; her "work on Goethe
[Characteristics of Goethe, London,
1833] has [not] had a sufficient
sale to encourage me much ... Need
I say they [the public] complain
that Goethe is obscure."

1 p. ; 18 cm., with envelope.
Submitting a requested
autobiographical sketch with
answers to a questionnaire on
Coxwell's translation of Goethe's
Faust, part I.
Enclosure: Autobiographical sketch
and questionnaire answered.

1 p. ; 18 cm., with envelope.
Submitting an addition to the
autobiographical sketch, sent
to Frantz on May 6.

6 p. ; 13.5 x 21 cm.
In English.

3 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.

3 p. ; 20 x 24 cm.

1 p. ; 17 cm.
With address and armorial seal.
Letter of introduction for three
unnamed young men.

4 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.

1 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.

4 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.

1 p. ; 22 x 26 cm.
Personal red seal attached.

1 p. ; 22 cm.
Concerns an evening lecture on the
subject of revolution and lyrical
poetry and referring to a passage
in Goethe on the same topic.
An announced enclosure is not present.