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AMs, 2 p. ; 19 x 12 cm.
Fragment from Thomas Carlyle's English
translation of Goethe's Wilhelm
Meister (3rd book, 8th chapter),
1824, v. 1, p. 288.
Copy in John Howard Payne's
handwriting.

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.

1 p. ; 20 x 20 cm.
Autograph poem (Draft).
The title on the ms. reads: An Madame
Carlyle, nach Edenburg.
First line: Augenblicklich
aufzuwarten.
With: Another poem (Draft) "Mit einer
Drahtkette" on the same leaf. First
line: Wirst du in den Spiegel
blicken.
With: Another poem (Draft) "Zum
Regenbogen" on the same leaf.
Fourth verse only, first line: Aus
des Regens düstrer Trübe.

3 p. ; 16 x 20 cm.
AMs, in the handwriting of the
Marchesa Sarah Margaret d'Ossoli,
the translator of Goethe's Dauer im
Wechsel, a poem in 6 stanzas.
Begins: I was so deeply blest!
The ms. was addressed by S. M.
d'Ossoli to John S. Dwight in 1838.
It was intended, but did not appear
in Dwight's Select Minor Poems,
Boston, 1839.

2 l. ; 27 cm.
English translation by Frank Claudy
of "Der Erlkönig" by Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe.
Ms. in hand of translator.

AMs (2 versions), 2 p. ; 32 x 20 cm.,
4 p. ; 20 x 13 cm.
Translation by John Greenleaf
Whittier (1807-92) of Goethe's poem
Der Erlkönig.
The smaller of the 2 mss. is the
first draft.
William A. Speck edited the poem for
publication in the Goethe Jahrbuch,
1904.

AMs, 2 l. ; 18 x 16 cm.
English translation of Goethe's poem.
Translated by Anson Phelps Stokes.
Enclosure: TLS from Anson Phelps
Stokes to William A. Speck, Feb. 19,
1924, forwarding this text, with
envelope.

1 p. ; 12 x 19 cm.
Printed poem.
With Goethe's signature and ms. note:
"erneut Weimar Oktbr. 1829."
Autograph note at head of page: "This
leaf I have received out of Goethe[!]
own hand. J.A. Stumpff. Oct. 17th
1829. Weimar."
With: ALS from W.H. Koller, Feb. 21,
1837, to Mrs. Wilde, sending on this
item as a gift; with address.

1 p. ; 22 x 25 cm.
Autograph poem, signed C.T.B.
Translation of Goethe's Der Fischer.
Translated by Charles Timothy Brooks.
With an explanatory note at head of
page.
This version differs markedly from
that printed in Specimens of Foreign
Standard Literature, ed. by George
Ripley, 1842 and reprinted in German
lyric poetry, a collection of songs
and ballads, 1863.

1 p. ; 23 x 20 cm.
Autograph poem.
Unpublished.-Pierre Beres sales list.
In honor of the 20th birthday of
Ottilie von Goethe's sister, Ulrike
von Pogwisch.

1 p. ; 20 x 23 cm.
Autograph ms., signed
Poem beginning: Worte, die der
Dichter spricht.
Addressed to William Fraser, editor of
the Magazine for Town and Country.
Personal, red attached seal with motto:
Ohne Hast, Aber Ohne Rast.
First pub. with title An die neunzehn
Freunde in England, in the periodical
Chaos, No. 6, Jahrg. 2. Also pub. as
no. 2 of Facsimiles and reproductions
of unique and rare items from the
William A. Speck Collection of
Goetheana.
With: Facsimile of the Chaos number
containing the printed text;
photographed with this is the ms.
apparently given to Ottilie von
Goethe for the Chaos, with title
written in by Eckermann: An die
Neunzehn Freunde in England.

2 p. ; 34 x 21 cm.
Autograph ms., in pencil.
Rough draft of his poem entitled Der
Demoiselle Schmehling nach Aufführung
des Hassischen Sta. Elena al
Calvario. Leipzig 1771. The second
stanza has title: An Madame Mara zum
frohen Jahresfeste. Weimar 1831. Both
stanzas were written in 1831.
Written on a discarded leaf of a letter
to Goethe, one side already had been
used by him for jotting down some
notes. The text is almost
indecipherable.
Printed in Weimar Ausgabe, v. 4,
p. 298.

1 l. ; 30 cm.
Ms. in unidentified hand.

1 p. ; 18 cm.
Autograph ms., signed, translation of
Goethe's poem Mignon, stanzas 1 & 2.
Translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
A different version of stanza 1, dated
1799?, is printed in The complete
poetical works of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, Oxford, 1912, v. 1,
p. 311.

1 p. ; 10 x 17 cm.
Autograph poem, signed G.
Printed in Weimar Ausgabe with title:
Den Originalen.

On pink card ; 8 x 11 cm., within
embossed leaf border.
Autograph poem, signed.
Printed in Weimar Ausgabe with heading:
An Frau Carlyle, Weimar, den 27.
December 1827[!]
A stickpin with medallion portrait of
Goethe is affixed; both poems in a
leather case with gilt lettering:
Greeting to Thomas Carlyle from
Goethe 1828.
With: Another greeting card with poem:
Wenn Phoebus Rosse sich zu schnell.
On card ; 13 x 9 cm., within gold
leaf border. Autograph poem, signed,
with heading: Den lieben treuen
Edinburger Gatten zum Neuenjahre
1828. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe with
heading: An Frau Clementine von
Mandelsloh, with date Weimar, am
kürzesten Tage 1827.

Autograph poem, a translation of
Goethe's Wonne der Wehmut.
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring.
Printed in Bowring's "The poems of
Goethe ...", London, 1853.
With: Autograph poem, "The Child in the
Cradle," trans. of Schiller's Das
Kind in der Wiege, signed by Bowring,
1 p. ; 12 x 18 cm., on same page as
above; personal, impressed seal.

1 p. ; 21 cm.
"To give room for wandering, is it,
that the world was made so wide,"
translation by Bayard Taylor of "Dass
wir uns in ihr zerstreuen, darum ist
die Welt so gross"; last 2 lines from
Wanderlied aus Wilhelm Meisters
Wanderjahren.

1 p. ; 16 x 9 cm.
Autograph quotation.
Copy in Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's
hand.

AMs, 1 p. ; 11 x 18 cm. mounted on a
page 15 x 24 cm.
Signed by Christian Karl Josias
Freiherr von Bunsen.
From Goethe's Vier Jahreszeiten,
Herbst.
Presumably a leaf from an autograph
album.
With English translation in an
unidentified hand on the mount.

Autograph quotation, signed.
Clearly a leaf from an autograph
album, with gilt edge.
On January 7 of the same year, Goethe
applies the quotation to himself in a
letter to Von Trebra: "Ich habe keine
weitere Ambition, als dass man zu mir
sagen möge: You are ..."

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?

1 p. ; 22 x 20 cm.
Handwriting not identified.
Not printed in Weimar Ausgabe.
Asking the unidentified recipient
to transmit an enclosed letter
to Michelangelo Salom at Padua,
the translator of Werther.

1 p. ; 15 x 23 cm.
In pencil.
Not printed in the Weimar Ausgabe.

1 p. ; 19 x 20 cm.
Deals with the publication of
Das römische Carnival.
Beginning of 1789?
Published in Goethe-Jahrbuch and
Weimar Ausgabe.

3 p. ; 25 x 21 cm.
In handwriting of Rinaldo Vulpius.
Suggestions for an edition of German
poets who write in Latin, which
Blumenthal is planning to compile.
Printed in Weimar Ausgabe, Goethe-
Jahrbuch II, 1881, and Ungedrucktes
aus dem Goethe-Kreise, 1896.

1 p. ; 19 x 22 cm.
Personal impressed seal.
In Geist's handwriting.
Goethe is sending a number of books
for Böttiger's library of
numismatics.

8 p. ; 21 x 34 cm.
Goethe to Brühl: Jan. 17 & 26, Feb.
20, 1828; one undated.
Brühl to Goethe: Jan. 10 & 22, Feb.
14 & 24, 1828.
Copied by Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer
preparatory to his edition of Briefe
von und an Goethe, hrsg. von F. W.
Riemer, Leipzig, Weidmann'sche
Buchhandlung, 1846.

1 p., with address.
The leaf containing the address is
edged and mended.
In the hand of Goethe's secretary
Heinrich Ernst Weber.
Döbereiner was apothecary and chemist,
professor at Jena.
Printed in Weimar Ausgabe, Abt. IV,
v. 23, p. 194.
Gift of Otto and William C. Madlener,
1959.

2 p. ; 20 x 20 cm.
In Johann August Friedrich John's
handwriting.
The date was changed by a later hand
from 1824 to 1829.
Goethe's letter was printed in Weimar
Ausgabe, from an unsigned first
draft.
Enclosure: 2 notes, apparently rough
labels for geological specimens.

1 p. ; 13 x 21 cm.
Personal red seal attached.
In Johann August Friedrich John's
handwriting.
Published from a draft in Weimar
Ausgabe.

1 p. ; 12 x 14 cm.
Mounted on blue board and framed.
Requesting the presence of von
Froriep and party at the Weimar
Library on November 25.
Not printed in Weimar Ausgabe.

1 p. ; 14 x 19 cm.
In Geist's handwriting.
With a note from Professor E.
Scheidemantel, Weimar,
authenticating the note.

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

1 p. ; 20 x 24 cm.
Printed in the Weimar Ausgabe from
the rough draft.

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.
Printed in Weimar Ausgabe.

1 p. ; 15 x 11 cm.
Pencilled on verso: Le Sketz Book
de Wasingnton Irving.
With this note, Goethe is returning
the Sketch Book, which Countess
Jaraczewska had lent him.

1 p. ; 17 x 21 cm.
John was Goethe's secretary, 1812-14.

1 p. ; 18 x 23 cm.
Published in Weimar Ausgabe.
Deals with arrangements entered into
between Goethe and Iffland in regard
to the production of Goethe's
revision of Romeo and Juliette.

1 p. ; 12 x 19 cm.
Personal red seal attached.
Endorsed by H.C. Robinson, London,
Dec. 1832.

3 p. ; 20 x 23 cm.
In Kräuter's handwriting.
Except for a postscript, the letter
is printed in Weimar Ausgabe.

1 p. ; 23 c 19 cm.
Concerns the translation of Ugo
Foscolo's Jacopo Ortis and the
novel Sydner ou Les dangers de
l'imagination by Mauritian author
Barthélemy Huet de Froberville
(1761-1835).

1 p. ; 10 x 13 cm.
Within ornamental border.

1 p. ; 20 x 33 cm.
Two official red seals attached.
In the handwriting of Johann August
Friedrich John.

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.

3 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.
Within black border.
In Johann August Friedrich John's
handwriting.

3 p. ; 25 x 20 cm.
In Johann August Friedrich John's
handwriting.
Concerning Goethe's work on the Last
Supper by Leonardo da Vinci which
Noehden translated into English.
Mounted at end of letter a pen and ink
drawing representing a medal showing
Karl August's head in profile on the
obverse and Leonardo da Vinci's and
Bossi's on the reverse.
Printed in Weimar Ausgabe.

2 p. ; 22 x 13 cm.
Letter within mourning border.
In Johann August Friedrich John's
handwriting.
Concerning the return of the book
"Geschichte der Neugriechen" and the
order of two others for the Weimar
Library.
Printed in Weimar Ausgabe.

1 p. ; 12 x 21 cm.
Letter within black border. In Johann
Christian Schuchardt's handwriting.
Printed in Weimar Ausgabe from the
draft.

1 p. ; 16 x 20 cm.
Letter in secretarial hand. Date on
verso, 18 Feb. 1828, possibly in
Charles Frederick Johnson's hand.

1831 Sep 7
3 p. ; 20 x 34 cm.
In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand.
Both letters printed in full in the
Weimar Ausgabe, the first under the
date of January 28.
This is clearly material for a
contemplated edition of Goethe's
letters.

Letters dated: Apr. 25 (2 p.); May 11
(2 p.); Jul. 10 (3 p.); Aug. 2
(4 p.); Sep. 8 (2 p.); Dec. 4 (2 p.)
and Dec. 15 (1 p.).
Letter of Sep. 8 with enclosure: Sep.
2, Weimar "Serbische Gedichte wären
nach meiner Ansicht folgendermassen
zu ordnen", 4 p., signed.
In the handwriting of Goethe's
secretary, Johann August Friedrich
John.
With English translations, typed.
All are printed in the Weimar Ausgabe.

2 p. ; 24 x 21 cm.
Concerning the administration of the
box office at the Weimar theater
and the engagement of an actress.
Printed in the Weimar Ausgabe.

1 p. ; 21 x 33 cm.
In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand.

1 p. ; 17 x 21 cm.
Printed in Weimar Ausgabe.
Includes the four line poem Alles
geben Götter die unendlichen ...

11 p. ; various sizes
Letters dated: Jan. 30, 1798; Aug. 5,
1799; Nov. 4, 1799; Mar. 3, 1800;
Apr. 2, 1800; Apr. 10, 1800 and Jun.
8, 1803.
All in the handwriting of Goethe's
secretary Ludwig Geist.
The first six letters concern the
publication of Goethe's Neue
Schriften, Berlin, J.F. Unger, 1792-
1800, 7 vols. The last is a letter of
thanks for Unger's gift of a copy of
Chr. E. von Kleists Sämtliche Werke.
All printed in Weimar Ausgabe.
With: Two letters from Bernhard Suphan
to Prof. K. Budde in Bonn, dated May
27, 1888 and July 11, 1888.

1 p. ; 23 x 20 cm.
With autograph statement by Edmund
Kräuter on verso, verifying that
the letter is in Goethe's hand.
Printed in the Weimarer Ausgabe, 4
(22, p. 390).
In case, and cardboard cover with
printed transcription.

2 p.; 24 x 20 cm.
Printed in Weimar Ausgabe and in
Goethes Briefe an Christian Gottlob
von Voigt, hrsg. von Otto Jahn,
Leipzig, 1868.

1 p. ; 20 x 33 cm.
Handwriting possibly by Heinrich
Ernst Weber.

1 p. ; 20 x 33 cm.
In English.
In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand.

1 p. mounted on cardboard ; 8 x 16 cm.
The request is for Buffon, George Louis
Leclerc, comte de: Histoire naturelle
générale et particulière, Paris 1753,
v. 4 [Quadrupèdes].
Cf. Keudell, E.v., Goethe als Benutzer
der Weimarer Bibliothek, 1931, item
2158.

1 p. ; 13 x 17 cm.
Written on verso of a fragment of a
larger manuscript which is in a
different hand.
Endorsing Christian August Vulpius as
the author of a proposed book.

1 p. ; 11 x 13 cm.
Heading: No. 2.
A request for three books.

8 x 20 cm.
With envelope "Goethe Handschrift
unter einem Geschäftsbrief an
Buchhändler Frommann in Jena."
Pencilled on back of envelope:
Handwriting on envelope Alwine
Frommann, friend of Goethe.

Signed: J W v Goethe

2 p. ; 33 x 20 cm.
Official impressed seal attached.
Co-signers: Freiherr von Fritsch and
C.F.? Schmauss.

2 p. ; 20 x 33 cm.
Official impressed seal attached.
Co-signer: C.F. Schmauss.
Concerns remission of certain taxes.

1 p. ; 20 x 33 cm.
Official impressed seal attached.
Goethe, in his capacity as Fürstl.
Sächs. Kriegs Commissar, signs a
document for the arrest of a
deserter, Johann Heinrich Scherf.

5 p. ; 21 x 34 cm.
Official impressed seal attached;
and with red seal.
A contract establishing a pension for
the two sons of Carl Ludwig Fernow,
who are under the guardianship of
Carl Bertuch.
Co-signed by G. Voigt, Carl Bertuch,
and von Wolfskeel.

3 p. ; 20 x 33 cm.
Personal red seal attached.
With notarization by von Wolfskeel,
dated Oct. 16, 1809; with impressed
seal attached.
Conferring full rights upon Goethe's
wife to act for him in settling the
estate of his deceased mother
Katharina Elisabeth Goethe. As
assistant in this matter he appoints
Friedrich Johann Heinrich Schlosser.

1 p. ; 12 x 18 cm.
Receipt from Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach,
Bergwerks-Commission.
Signed, J.W.v. Goethe, and C.G. Voigt.

1 p. ; 9 x 16 cm.
Receipt from Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach,
Bergwerks-Commission.
Signed by J.W.v. Goethe, G. Voigt,
J.G. Seeger.

4 p. ; 13 x 21 cm.
Printed headpiece: Weimar theatre.

4 p. ; 13 x 21 cm.

1843 Feb 8

1 p. ; 21 x 14 cm.
Lithographed calligraphical text
within black borders.
Signed also by Wolfgang Maximilian
Freiherr von Goethe.

3 p. ; 14 x 22 cm.
Böttger was the lawyer of Goethe's
grandchildren.
Regrets that he cannot be present at
opening of Goethe's home to receive
members of a musical conference in
Weimar; asks Böttger to represent
him.

1 p. ; 14 x 22 cm.
Text: Herrn Dr. Boettger, Gruss und
Dank von W.v. Goethe.

3 p. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Letter of sympathy at the death of von
Salpius' father.

2 p. ; 21 x 33 cm.
Official blue stamp of the Weimar
Grossherzoglich Sächsisches
Amtsgericht.
Legal statement of the death of Dr.
jur. Wolfgang Maximilian Freiherrn
von Goethe, coupled with the official
recognition of Walther Wolfgang von
Goethe as his brother's sole heir.

2 p. ; 21 x 33 cm.
Official blue stamp.
With tax stamp affixed in upper left
corner of p.l.
Witnessed by Court clerk Müller.
Appointing Dr. jur. Wilhelm Boettger
to act for him in all matters
attendant on the death of his
brother Wolfgang Maximilian.

1 p. ; 6 x 10 cm.
Text: Mr. Taylor wird Sontag den 28
Juni um 11 Uhr im Goethe'schen
Hause erwartet. v.G.

24 x 19 cm.
Message of condolence at the death of
Kuno Böttger, signed Walther von
Goethe.

1 p. ; 21 cm.
Declining an invitation.

2 p. ; 21 x 33 cm.
Signed: W. M. Johañes von Goethe.

4 p. ; 13 x 21 cm.
Expressing pleasure at receiving the
recipient's basrelief.