3 p. ; 18 x 11 cm. Letter of appreciation for the mask of Goethe, which the recipient had sent to Carlyle. Printed in: Schreiber, Carl F., Carlyle's Goethe Mask, in: Yale Library Gazette, 18 (1943): 26-29.
1 p. ; 8 x 15 cm. "Dem gefeierten Sänger in Schloss Corveÿ meinen herzlichen Dank in Prosa, für Verse, die ihm keiner nachmacht, Gr. Moltke, Feldmarschall.
2 p. ; 11 x 18 cm. "Mr. Coupland's book [The spirit of Goethe's Faust, London, 1885] is admirable & of very great service to every student of "Faust." Irving also expresses his interest in all of Heine's writings.
1 p. ; 22 x 26 cm. Glaser was editor of the periodical Ost und West, Prag. An urgent inquiry as to when his short story Der Mohr will appear. Lyser fears that the censor may object to it. It was published in Ost und West, 1840, no. 6-14.
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.
4 p. ; 20 x 25 cm. Personal red seal attached. Published in: Speck, William A. "New letters of Carlyle to Eckermann," Yale Review, July 1926. Subsequent letters from Carlyle to Eckermann were published in same source as above.
4 p. ; 19 x 23 cm. Thanking him for the books shipped through Mr. Aiken; discussion of Carlyle's work, German romance: Specimens of its chief authors, 1827, 4 v.
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.
2 p. ; 19 cm. The letter is autobiographical and about his work. Engraved portrait of Lavater, by Heinrich Pfenninger, mounted on p.[3] of the double sheet.
6 p. ; 21 x 25 cm. With personal red seal attached. In answer to Frau von Goethe's inquiry Harnier, senator, later mayor of Frankfurt, presents a lengthy explanation and historical development beginning in 1616, of Jewish rights and privileges.
1 p. ; 16 x 20 cm. Notification that the bill for books now rendered for the second time, is erroneously made out to him, instead of to Madame de Staël. It will, however, be paid in either name.
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.