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8 p. ; 12 x 20 cm.
The larger portion of this letter is
printed in v. 2 of Goethe's
Gespräche, hrsg. von Freiherr von
Biedermann.

1 p. ; 20 x 21 cm.
Nees von Esenbeck requests the name
and title of Goethe's family doctor.
Sturm's reply, on the same sheet: "Dr.
und Hofmedicus Rehbein. Anmerkg. Er
muss mit uns studiert haben."

1 p. ; 20 x 25 cm.
Autograph poem, signed J.E.H.
With a pressed flower, now in
envelope.

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.

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.

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. ; 16 x 22 cm.
Personal red seal attached.
Concerns the publication of Carlyle's
The Life of Friedrich Schiller.
Postscript: "Make my compliments to
Mr. Taylor and...inform him...that
Wilhelm Meisters Travels will not
do. It is full of genius: but in a
state of a fragment, and unfit for
the English market."

3 p. ; 12 x 20 cm.
Rehbein, Goethe's physician, goes
into detail on Goethe's severe
illness during the winter of
1823-24.

1 p. ; 21 x 33 cm.
Transfer of an officer from Apolda
to Kapellendorf; also signed:
CWFhFritsch.

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. ; 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Unpublished.-Pierre Beres sales list.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.

4 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.

1 p. ; 30 x 20 cm.
In an unidentified hand, not Karl
August's.
Includes notation of payments to Frau
v. Heygendorf, née Jagemann, and to
Jagemann.

2 p. ; 21 x 12 cm.
Signed: Therese von Jakob.

Poem, 1 p. ; 25 x 21 cm.
Printed in J. P. Eckermann, Gedichte,
1838.

3 p. ; 18 x 27 cm.
Author of "Wander-Epigramme", which
were submitted to Goethe for review
in "Kunst und Alterthum." Goethe
does not seem to have kept his
promise.

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

1 p. ; 21 x 26 cm.

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.

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. ; 25 x 21 cm.
Requesting the return of this her
"first essay in public life" from
a Mr. Walsh.

1 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.

2 p. ; 12 x 21 cm.

4 p. ; 19 x 23 cm.
With personal red seal attached.
Concerns chiefly Carlyle's work on
German romance: Specimens of its
chief authors, 1827, 4 v. Appeals
to Dr. Julius to forward from
Hamburg some books, which Carlyle
needs to complete the compilation
of this work.

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

1 p. ; 13 x 21 cm.

1 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.
Personal black seal attached.

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. ; 19.5 x 24 cm.
Personal red seal attached.
Kräuter was librarian at Weimar and
Goethe's private secretary.

4 p. ; 11 x 19 cm.

4 p. ; 12 x 21 cm.
Accompanying a contribution to the
Literatur Blätter, which apparently
was a passage from her late husband,
Jean Paul Richter's Gedankenbuch,
praising Goethe's genius.

3 p. ; 20 x 24 cm.

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.

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

3 p. ; 21 x 17 cm.
Concerning the introduction of a book
by Melos as a school text in the
Weimar schools, and a form of
application for admission to the
"Medizinisch-chirurgische pepinière
und Akademie" at Berlin.

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.

3 p. ; 13 x 19 cm.

1 p. ; 20 x 12 cm.
Concerning receipts for interest
paid.

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.

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

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.

4 p. ; 19 x 23 cm.
Personal red seal attached.
Proctor wrote under the pen name of
Barry Cornwall.

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.

4 p. ; 13 x 21 cm.

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. ; 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.

1 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.

1 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.

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