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2 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.
Enclosure: Pen sketch of Henry
Irving as Mephistopheles;
11 x 18 cm.

4 p. ; various sizes.
Letters dated: Oct. 18, Nov. 10 and
Nov. 15, 1832.
All bearing on illustrations to be
supplied for the 15 supplementary
volumes to Goethe's Ausgabe letzter
Hand.

AMs, 128 p. ; 14 x 23 cm. and 18 x
21 cm.
Published in his Kunst und Leben; aus
Friedrich Förster's Nachlass, hrsg.
von Hermann Kletke, Berlin, 1873,
p. 164-239.

AMs, 4 p. ; 20 x 24 cm.
Report on a conversation with Goethe.
Supplied by Mr. Speck from this
manuscript for the 1911 edition of
Biedermann's Goethes Gespräche, in
which the contents appear under nos.
2460 and 2986.

1916 Nov 1
3 p. ; 12.5 x 20 cm.
With: Related notes and correspondence
concerning an essay on Goethe by
John Lothrop Motley.

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

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

32 l. ; 29 x 23 cm.
Typescript.
Supplement to his Half a hundred
thralls to Faust.

Typescript, 11 l. ; 28 cm.
The last 3 pages numbered 277-279,
apparently from another version of
this ms.
Used as basis for the chapter on Alice
Raphael's translation of Faust in
Frantz's "Half a hundred thralls to
Faust," published in 1949.
Enclosure: Replies to Mr. Adolf
Frantz's questionnaire
[autobiographical sketch by Alice
Raphael].

1 l. ; 28 cm.
Typescript (original).
Poem.
At head of title: Ein Gedicht
gewidmet zu Hermann J. Muller.
Autograph superscription: Geehrter
Professor Faber du Faur!
Parody of Goethe's poem Gefunden.

2 p. ; 37 cm.
Announcing Bayard Taylor's enrollment
as foreign honorary member of the
Freie Deutsche Hochstift.
The official record of this
appointment, referred to as being
enclosed, is not present.
Enclosure: ALS from Dr. G.H. Otto
Volger, as president of the Freie
deutsche Hochstift, to Bayard Taylor,
dated July 4, 1878. 3 p. ; 29 cm.
On stationery of the Society.
Welcoming Taylor as fellow member and
expressing the hope he may find in
the facilities of the society
inspiration to further his studies
in Goethe literature.

3 p. ; 20 x 33 cm.
Signed: Schnaubert, p.t. prorector.
With 4 opinions, signed: H. Griesbach;
W. Schmid. Paulus: v. Eckardt, C.
Walch, v. Schellwitz, Hufeland,
Nicolaj, Grandl; Saccow, Hennings,
Schütz, Stark, Ulrich, Heinrich,
Voigt, respectively.
Concerning the water-supply at Jena.
Griesbach served for many years as a
member of the municipal council at
Jena.

2 p. ; 20 x 24 cm.
A sort of postscript to an official
notification that a request for the
title "Excellenz" has been denied by
the Grandduke.

3 p. ; 11 x 14 cm.
Signed: Alwine Fr.
Expressing regret at his leaving
Berlin.

2 p. ; 13 x 21 cm.
Enclosure: A list of the contents of
a parcel which Minna Herzlieb-Walch
had turned over to Alwine Frommann.
On verso of one of the notes some
pencil remarks by Andrew Hamilton
concerning Taylor's proposed visit
to Goethe.

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

2 p. ; 22 x 26 cm.
Forwarding some sample pages of
parallel German and French text of
Goethe's Versuch die Metamorphose
der Pflanzen zu erklären.

2 p. ; 20 x 26 cm.

4 p. ; 20 x 25 cm.
Signature: S. M. Fuller.

15 p. ; 16 x 20 cm.
Tied with green ribbon.
Partial contents: Passages from
Wieland, good for mottoes or
otherwise; The two rules of
Archytas; Mrs. Austin's
Characteristics of Goethe.
Endorsed by K.F. Fuller, Oct. 17,
1859.

10 l. ; 28 cm., 2 copies.
Typescript (carbon).
Published in German quarterly v. 24,
1951.

6 p. ; 12 x 20 cm.
With two impressed seals of Glasgow
University.

13 p. ; 23 x 14 cm.
Letters dated: May 19, Jun. 17, Oct.
6, 1898; May 27, Jun. 25, 1900; and
May 7, 1903.
3 Postcards : Berlin, signed, to
William Alfred Speck. Dated Aug. 13,
1899, Apr. 4, 1900 and Jun. 17, 1903.
All bearing on pictorial contributions
from the Speck collections for the
Goethe-Jahrbuch, edited by Geiger.

1 p. ; 14 x 19 cm.
Geist, secretary and valet to Goethe.

2 p. ; 19 x 22 cm.

4 p. ; 19 x 22 cm.
Enclosure: German copy and English
translation of this letter.
Chiefly Gellert's reaction to Samuel
Richardson's The History of Sir
Charles Grandison.

2 p. ; 18 x 22 cm.

3 p. ; 22 x 26 cm.
Gersdorf, prime minister of the Grand
Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach,
represented Grandduke Karl August at
the Congress of Vienna. He sends on
request a short sketch of his life
corrected and enlarged from
Graebner's book on Weimar. Whether
this material is meant for a new
edition of Graebner, or another
venture is difficult to determine.
The autobiographical sketch not
present.

3 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.

3 p. ; 14 x 21 cm.
Signed: Emilie Gleichen-Schiller.
Seal removed.

4 p. ; 14 x 22 cm.
Signed: Emilie von Gleichen-Schiller.
The letter accompanied a lock of
Schiller's hair.

4 p. ; 18 x 25 cm.
Enclosure of "ein Blättchen" on the
subject of the recent drowning of
an unnamed youth, not present.

2 p. ; 12 x 19 cm.

1 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.

1 p. ; 24 x 20 cm.
Informing the recipient that he will
be in Jena on the next day or the
following one for the reopening of
the Jena Academic Library.

2 p. ; 22 x 26 cm.
Signed: J. A. von Goethe.
Personal red seal attached.

1 p. ; 21 x 26 cm.

1 p. ; 20 x 30 cm.
Signed: J. A. Goethe; co-signers are
Voigt, Gersdorf, Büttner, Ridel,
Rühlmann, Stichling [and one
undeciphered].
A report on the tax charged for
messenger service.

1 p. ; 10 x 17 cm.
Personal red seal attached. Mounted.

4 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.
In the handwriting of Alfred
Nicolovius.
Advising of Goethe's visit to Weimar
during the winter 1775/76, and of
his recent appointment as
Legationsrat by Duke Carl August.
The original letter was presented to
the Weimar Landesbibliothek in 1825.
[Zu Goethe's Jubelfeier zu Weimar. Am
7. November 1825]
With: Other material related to
Goethe's Jubelfeier in 1825.

AMs (copy), 4 p. ; 20 x 34 cm.
In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand.
Pencil note at top of p. 1: Aus d.
Tageb[üchern] copiert von R.
26 items, 1 with pencil correction.

828 l. ; 28 cm.
Typescript (chiefly original, a few
leaves are carbon).
English translation of Dichtung und
Wahrheit by Williamson, Green, and
Schreiber.
With ms. corrections in pencil or ink
in 3 different handwritings, incl.
that of C. F. Schreiber.
With: Typescripts of variants of 6
poems, 6 l. ; 28 cm., with ms.
corrections.
With: Biographical fragments,
typescript (carbon), 30 l ; 28 cm.,
contents: Tales of my mother; An
early period; A later period; Jacobi;
The beginning of my friendship with
Schiller; Herder; Anna Amalia; He
restoreth my soul.

AMs, 3 p. ; 21 x 34 cm.
Fragment of Epimenides.
In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand,
with stage directions pencilled in.
This version differs variously from
the first printing in 1815.

136 p. ; 21 x 17 cm.
Ms. copy in an unidentified hand, in
German.
Transcription in German script of the
scenes up to and incl. "Der
Nachbarin Haus."
The passage of line 562 to 601
transposed after line 851; lines 967-
969 are variant; lines 970-1021,
1346, 1970-1982, 2195-2218, 2659-
2666, 2695-2704, 2721-2724, 2831-
2840, part of 2849-2878, 2985-3002
are omitted. - Cf. Goethes Werke,
Jubiläums-Ausgabe.
Bound in green linen with title:
Goethe's Faust.
Purchased from Colbeck Radford & Co.,
Ltd., London, October 5, 1933.

AMs, 1 p. ; 13 x 21 cm.
Ms. note on verso: Handschrift meines
Schwiegervaters. Ottilie von Goethe;
with 4 red seals showing the Goethe
coat-of-arms.
Ms. note on slip pasted on verso: ...
obtained from Madame de Goethe ... in
1839. J. C. Reynolds of Richmond Va.
Another ms. note: This stanza of Faust
from the original was given to me by
Gov. J. C. Reynolds Jan. 14, 1879.
Mary Phelps Montgomery.

AMs, 2 p. ; 20 x 34 cm.
Fragment of the 5th act of Faust,
comprising almost half of the episode
entitled Offene Gegend. Differs
slightly from the version printed in
the Weimar Ausgabe.
Gift from Ottilie von Goethe to Mrs.
Anna Jameson, with the latter's
endorsement dated Nov. 25, 1833.
With: Reproduction "no. 5 of Facsimiles
and reproductions of unique or rare
items from the William A. Speck
Collection of Goetheana in the Yale
University Library," 1926.

AMs, 7 p. ; 17 x 21 cm. and 5 p. ;
11 x 17 cm.
English translation from Goethe's
Faust, scene Studierzimmer, lines
1209-1322.
Translated by George Henry Borrow.

AMs, 23 p. ; 21 x 17 cm.
With typed transcription.
English translation from Goethe's
Faust, lines 3835-4222.
Translated by George Henry Borrow.
With Borrow's ms. corrections, some
in pencil.

2 p. ; 17 x 11 cm.
Translated by George Henry Borrow.
Printed in v. 8 of the "Norwich
edition" of Borrow's works.
For further description and
information of these three mss. see
Lillian Espy (Reed) Atkins,
Fragmentary English translations of
Goethe's Faust; Ph.D. Thesis, Yale
University, 1937, p. 162-206; also
William A. Speck, George Borrow and
Goethe's Faust, Publications of
Modern Language Association, v. 41,
p. 167-178.
With: Another earlier draft of lines
3871-4061. Translated by George
Henry Borrow. 11 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.

2 l. ; 27 x 20 cm.
Autograph ms., signed.
Translated by Frank Claudy.
Translation of Pt. I, pact scene,
lines 1714-1759.
Published in Faust; a tragedy by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; the
first part, 1886.

AMs, 1 p.l., 14 p. ; 34 cm.
"These transcriptions from my
translations of the "Faust" [pt. 1
and 2] published in Messrs. J.M. Dent
& Sons' "Temple Classics" (Part I,
1902; Part II, 1905) and afterwards
in "Everyman's Library", 1908, were
made at the request of my friend and
sometime student, Professor Andrew
Keogh, of the Yale University
Library", signed, Albert G. Latham.
Accompanied by a typed letter, signed,
to Mr. Keogh, dated June 23, 1932.

93 l. ; 29 cm.
Typescript (original).
English translation by George Madison
Priest of Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe's Faust.
Adapted for the Goethe bicentennial
festival production of the City
College of New York Dramatic
Society; directed by Samuel L.
Sumberg, at the Pauline Edwards
Theatre, May 27, 28, 1949.
Program laid in.
With ms. notes.

123 p., 15 p. of sketches ; 28 cm.
Carbon typescript.
English translation of Faust, Part 1,
by Graham Stanhope Rawson.
Script for the Theater Guild production
in 1928, with their light, property,
and scene plots, and stage
directions.
Rawson's stage version was published in
London in 1936.
Copy given to Alice Raphael by Lawrence
Langner, with her notes on the front
cover.
With two clipped reviews of the Theater
Guild production laid in, one by
Albert Carroll and one by John Whyte,
together with an ALS from Whyte to
Alice Raphael, 1928 Nov. 22.
Additional information on this
production will be found in the YCAL
Theater Guild file.

AMs, 9 l. ; 25 x 20 cm.
The passage is from Act III: "Chorus.
Speakest thou as if within were
spaces roomy as the world is"
through "Euphorion. Dream then who
may ...," p. 285-299 of the printed
edition, Boston, 1871.
With: A covering letter from Bayard
Taylor to Mrs. Anne Lunch Botta,
Apr. 4, 1872, presenting this ms.
to her.

AMs, 1 p. ; 18 cm.
The passage is from Act III,
Euphorion: "I will not longer ..."
through "Thine, hers and Mine?"
It differs widely from the version in
the printed edition, Boston, 1871,
p. 293.

Typescript (original), 46 l. ; 28 cm.
With a second copy of part of p. 31
and one page of errata.
Ms. note at front of typescript:
Translated by Mr. H. Turm,
discoverer and owner of the
disputed Goethe portrait by Dawe.
Translation by Turm of Faust I
through line 1408.
With dedication to Carl F.
Schreiber, and an introductory
poem.

AMs, 1 p. ; 20 x 27 cm., mounted.
In upper right hand corner: 109.
Translated by Alphonse Marie Louis de
Lamartine.
"This is the autograph of Lamartine,
the poet. F.L." in upper left corner.
A rough draft, prose description
alternating with attempts at
versification.

AMs, 1 p. l., 20 p. ; 17 x 20 cm.
Yiddish adaptation by A. Tannenbaum,
translated to page 14 by Leopold
Adler.
A critical sketch of Goethe's drama
and Gounod's opera, in Leopold
Adler's handwriting.
Translated from the Yiddish version -
cf. book in the Speck Collection
(Sa4 910).
Enclosure: ALS from Leopold Adler to
Georg Ehrhardt, May 18, 1911,
Teplitz-Schönau, and autograph note
Über Jargon, in Ehrhardt's hand.

1 p.l., 138 l. ; 28 cm.
Typescript (carbon)
In black snap binder.
Translated by Alice Raphael.
"Acting version prepared by Frank
McMullan and Alois Nagler, for
production by the Yale University
Department of Drama," March, 1949.
With: Xerox copies of press clippings,
one including a picture of Mrs.
Raphael, tipped in on inside front
and back covers.

64 l. ; 30 cm.
Title mounted on blue binder.
Processed from typescript.
With translator's corrections.
Chiefly in verse.
Presented by T. G. Neumiller in partial
fulfillment of the requirements for
the degree of Master of Fine Arts.
For further notes on the translation,
sources used, etc., see his MFA
thesis production book (Yale Drama
School Library, call no. Be40.G549).
Accompanied by TLS to Kurt von Faber
du Faur, May 29, 1965.
With: Theater program of the
performance of Goethe's Urfaust at
the Yale School of Drama, October
20-24, 1964.

2 p. ; 11 x 19 cm.
Autograph ms. (copy)
In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand.
A poem written in December 1796 as a
sequel to the Xenien-Kampf.
Begins: Also das wäre Verbrechen?
First pub. as introduction to his
Hermann und Dorothea, Vieweg
edition, 1820.

1 l., 157 numb. p.
English translation of Goethe's
Hermann und Dorothea.
Handwritten ms. with corrections.
The translator is unidentified.
In verse, but not in the original
meter.

3 p. l., 101 numb. l. ; 29 cm.
2 copies.
Typescript (xerox copy).
English translation of Goethe's
Iphigenie auf Tauris by Evelyn
Solann; as presented at the
auditorium of the New York library of
the Performing Arts at Lincoln
Center, Jun. 10, Jun. 12 and Jun. 13,
1967 [c1957].
Both copies autographed by all the
actors, including the translator, who
took the role of Iphigenie.

47 galley proofs for p.3-155; 160 l.
numbered 157-316, typescript for
p.155-305 of the edition published
at Chicago by Henry Regnery, 1963.
English translation by Mayer & Bogan
of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's
Wahlverwandtschaften.
With profuse pencil corrections in
both galleys and typescript; 1 l.
ms. corrections, 1, 2, 2 typed l.
attached to l.17, 23, 25, and 30,
respectively.
The edition was pub. with an
introduction by Victor Lange.