4 p. ; 18 x 12 cm. On outside wrapper in another hand: "Therese Robinson, Amerikanerin, von Geburt aber eine Deutsche, schrieb unter dem Namen Talvj sowohl über slavische Sprachen als auch mit sehr guter Darstellung und gründlicher Kenntniss über die ersten Ansiedlungen in Amerika." On stationery with mourning border. Inquiry on living conditions at Weimar, where she intends to establish residence.
2 p. ; 11 x 18 cm. Offering an article on Goethe anecdotes. The recipient, under date of the 11th, has written "Unable." Apparently the article appeared later in the Athenaeum 1889 under the title: Anecdote of Goethe.
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.
4 p. ; 12 x 19 cm. Of particular historical interest because of the detailed information on conditions and activities at German universities, one year after the debacle of Jena. Mention is made of the progress on the translation of Ariosto.
3 p. ; 18 x 22 cm. About Coleridge's plan to write a history of German literature, and the request from the Quarterly Review to furnish an article on Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit.
1 p. ; 11 x 18 cm. Bishop, the English composer of operas, glees, and songs, compliments the actor, Kean, on his interpretation of Mephistopheles in the London production of Goethe's Faust.
1 p. with address and red seal ; 37 x 23 cm. Criticism of Delavigne's Les Enfants d'Édouard, whose German translation he has just read and is returning, together with a work by Ghiberti.
2 p. ; 18 x 27 cm. Suggestions for a review of Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften and James Lawrence's Das Reich der Narren to appear in Allgemeine Literatur Zeitung.
4 p. ; 19 cm. Concerns the projected publication of Gries' translation of Calderon's dramatic works, which appeared 1815- 29 under the imprint Berlin, Nicolaische Buchhandlung.
3 p. ; 18 x 23 cm. Contains favorable criticism of Archenholz's account of the evacuation of Toulon and suggests to him as the theme for a future treatise the American Revolution. Published in Schiller's Briefe, hrsg. von Fritz Jonas, 1892, v. 4, no. 877.
1 p. ; 13.5 x 21 cm. Luden wishes Zinkeisen, the editor of Preussische Staatszeitung, to write a review of his latest book, Geschichte der Teutschen, a copy of which he is sending him.
2 p. ; 20 x 30 cm. Concerns the possible purchase by Griesbach of duplicates of "autographis Lutheri et coaevorum" from the ducal library. Griesbach, a theology professor at Jena for 36 years, was especially noted for his critical edition of the New Testament.
4 p. ; 14.5 x 23.5 cm. Headpiece: Schlossbrunn, Marktbrunn, Neubrunn. Enclosure: An autograph poem, signed: Wiedersehen mit Karlsbad, 2 p. ; 20 x 25 cm.