iii, 89 l. ; 28 cm. Typescript (original and carbon). This biographical sketch by Mr. Speck's wife was used as the basis of Prof. C. F. Schreiber's version written for Goethe's works with the exception of Faust; a catalogue, v. 1, 1940.
AMs (in pencil), 40 p. ; 23 x 15 cm. Note on accompanying envelope, in Mr. Schreiber's hand: Paper by Mr. Speck. A comprehensive description of the Berg Collection of 3,750 prints acquired by Mr. Speck in November 1927. With typed transcription, 16 p.
2 p. ; 26 x 22 cm., with address. From a Cassel dealer he has received the still remaining copies of the piano score of his Oratorio; he cannot agree to the price set by Breitkopf & Härtel for 2 manuscripts offered them for sale, but he is willing to write a song for their album by the middle of September; requests a corrected proof of his Oratorio.
3 p. ; 22 x 28 cm. Chiefly a detailed description of the conversion of his opera "Faust" into a grand opera for the production at Covent Garden, at the wish of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
2 p. ; 15 x 19 cm. Text in French. Letter mounted, with newspaper clippings and portrait on the same sheet, which has mourning border. With this letter is a printed article and portrait. Spurzheim was a phrenologist.
4 p. ; 20 cm. Concerns the production of a series of performances of Faust plays, specifically of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. With: Theater program of performance of Marlowe's Faust, under the auspices of the Heidelberger Hebbel- Verein, December 16-17, 1903, at Heidelberg. With: Hectographed list of activities of the Hebbel-Verein.
2 p. ; 21 x 25 cm. Personal red seal attached. A request for permission to reprint a first version Weimar manuscript of Goethe's Iphigenie, for the purpose of comparing it with an Oldenburg manuscript. In 1839 Stahr issued: "Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris in ihrer ersten Gestalt."
1 p. ; 21 x 13 cm. Forwarding not only a signature, but also a picture of Goethe and a poem by him, as well as a few lines by Duke Karl August of Saxe-Weimar- Eisenach. These items are not present.
3 p. ; 19 x 23 cm. Stolberg sends the manuscript of his "Otanes" to Göschen with a number of suggestions for printing: "Mit nächster Post soll auch der Säugling kommen, der hat nur etwas über 500 Verse, ist also sehr klein."