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Typescript (carbon), signed, 10 l. ;
28 cm.
Text in English up to the middle of l.
3, and in German from there on.
On Goethe's procedure in writing three
scenes of Torquato Tasso.
Published, entirely in German, in the
Jahrbuch der Goethe-Gesellschaft,
Bd. 13, 1927, with title: Nochmals
"Die drei losen Nymphen."

AMs, 3 l. ; 28 cm.
With: Typescript (carbon), 3 l. ;
28 cm.

AMs, 17 p. ; 20 x 25 cm.
Written probably in January 1929.
Published with title "In Memoriam"
in the Yale University Library
Gazette, v. III, no. 3, 1929.

AMs, 11 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.
A review of Emil Ludwig's Goethe
biography, publ. in the Yale
Review, v. VIII, no. 3.

AMs in pencil, 5 l. ; 28 cm.
With: Typescript (2 carbons), 2 l. ;
28 cm.; and TLS from publisher,
April 23, 1931, acknowledging
receipt of the manuscript.

Typescript (carbon), 3 l. ; 28 cm.
Published in: Forschungen und
Fortschritte, Berlin, 8. Jahrg.,
1932, p. 113.

AMs, 30 l. ; 14 x 22 cm.
With: Another version in typescript
(original), 19 l. ; 14 x 22 cm.
Published in: Yale Alumni Weekly,
v. 41, 1932.

AMs, 8 l. ; 28 cm.
With: Typescript (original) with
title: Lecture on the collection of
Goetheana, 6 l. ; 28 cm. with ms.
corrections; and another typescript
(original and carbon) with
corrections, carbon copy dated, in
pencil, Dec. 1939.

AMs (rough draft and corrected
version), 5, 5 l. ; 26 cm.

Typescript (carbon), 4 l. ; 28 cm.
2 copies.

Typescript poem, 2 l. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Corrections in Mr. Schreiber's hand.
Based on a quotation from Goethe's
Wilhelm Meister: "Glücklich ist der,
dem sein Geschäft auch zur Puppe
wird, der mit demselben zuletzt noch
spielt und sich an dem ergötzt, was
ihm sein Zustand zur Pflicht macht."

Typescript, 10 l. ; 28 cm.
Paper prepared by Carl F. Schreiber
and Warren W. Florer and read
before the Modern Language
Association of America, at Ithaca,
N.Y., December 1910, by Prof.
Schreiber.

AMs, 15 l. ; 28 cm.
Most leaves have text on both sides.
Illustrated lecture describing some
outstanding items in the William A.
Speck Collection.
With: Typescript (original), 12, i.e.
20, l. 4b, 5a, 7b, 10b, 11b, 12b-d
added in foliation.

3 p. ; 19 x 23 cm.

8 p. ; 13 x 20 cm.
Enclosure: Variant versions of
Goethe's Schäfers Klagelied, in
Schütz's handwriting, with his notes.

3 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.
A letter of introduction for two
gentlemen by the name of Mickwitz
from Livonia.

7 p. ; 12 x 19 cm.
November 1 & 2, 1814.

2 p. ; 20 x 25 cm.
Personal black seal attached.

2 p. ; 13 x 21 cm.

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

2 p. ; 18 cm.
Autograph ms. in German, signed (xerox
copy).
Written on the back of end papers of
the Speck Collection copy of [Beyle,
Marie Henri], Rome, Naples et
Florence en 1817 (Paris, 1817),
Dd4 817b.

2 p. ; 23 x 20 cm.
Declining to complete the revision of
E. H. J. Münch's work, Franz von
Sickingen, and returning sixteen
corrected sheets for his own work,
Der Bodensee.
With address at top of p. 1.

1 p. ; 32 cm.
Signed: Prof. Schwab.
With address on verso; no enclosure.
Requesting Graf August von Platen-
Hallermünde's poems to be sent to
him at Rome, and submitting an item
for the Morgenblatt für gebildete
Stände.

Typescript, 34 l. ; 30 cm.
34 photographs on 1 l., 8 photographs
in envelope, and author's mounted
portrait laid in.
Not published.

1 p. ; 20 x 12 cm.

4 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.

3 p. ; 29 cm.
A laudatory poem.
First line: Thut, Hochbegabter Herr,
wie ohne Schuld vor Zeiten.

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

4 p. ; 11 x 17 cm.
Discusses the advisability of founding
an English Goethe Society.

6 numb. l. ; 29 cm.
Copy of typescript (not carbon).
Proves that Sir Walter Head James, not
William James, d. 1777, is the
author of The Letters of Charlotte.

2 p. ; 18 cm. with envelope.
Accompanying a questionnaire sent him
by Frantz; the answers include brief
biographical sketch and his approach
to translating Goethe's Faust.

2 p. ; 18 cm. with envelope.
Because of the liquidation of the firm
which published his translation of
the first part of Goethe's Faust,
only a few copies reached the public;
he is now working on the second part
and hopes to publish both parts
together - they came out in 1959.

2 p. ; 25 x 19 cm. with address.
As secretary of the Goethean Literary
Society of Mercersburg, Shuford
requests permission to enroll
Percival among its list of
distinguished honorary members.
With impressed blind seal of the
Society bearing the head, in
profile, of Goethe.

AMs, 35, 3 l. ; 22 x 18 cm.
An excerpt from this manuscript was
published in translation in G. R.
Wieland's American fossil cycads,
v. 1, 1906, p. 139-141.
Enclosure: ALS: Yale University,
George Reber Wieland to William
Alfred Speck, June 23, 1924, 1 p. ;
21 x 28 cm.