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1 p. ; 14 x 22 cm.
Schuchardt was Goethe's last
secretary.

2 p. ; 19 x 22.5 cm.

3 p. ; 14 x 22 cm.
With engraved headpiece: Chûte de
l'Aar.
Deals with his composition of Faust.
Artôt was an opera singer.

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.

4 p. ; 33 cm.
To be published with support of the
Goethe-Gesellschaft ... edited by
Hans Gerhard Gräf, Weimar, 1916.
Printed suggestions with the title of
the proposed work on p.[3]; its sub-
title corrected in pencil ms. in
Gräf's hand, to read: dargestellt in
Tag- und Jahres-Übersichten.

33 l. ; 28 cm.
Typescript (carbon).

1 p. ; 13 x 16 cm.
English translation, signed: H.
Granville Barker.
Text: Right and justice descend from
one generation to another like a
perpetual disease.

1 p. ; 19 x 9 cm.
Official impressed revenue seal.
Mounted.
With ms. note "N.B. Mr. Graves
afterwards rec'd as much more as made
it 200£." - Prof. Ian A. Gordon of
University of New Zealand says, this
endorsement is in the handwriting of
Bishop Thomas Percy.
Receipt for forty pounds in full for
the copyright of "The Sorrows of
Werter."
For explanation of the circumstances
concerning this receipt, see William
A. Speck's article "Revealing two
secrets of the Sorrowful Werter" in
The Literary digest international
book review, May, 1926; also Charles
J. Hill, "The first English
translation of Werther," in Modern
Language notes, 1932, v. 45.

1 p. ; 22 cm.
Letter of condolence at the sudden
death of Hermann Freiherr von
Reischach and his son Hermann Albert.

4 p. ; 21 cm.
Proposing Rafaele Mariano of Rome as a
contributor to the Allgemeine Zeitung
and taking exception to a derogatory
item on Gregorovius by Gutzkow in
this paper.

4 p. ; 18 cm.
Acknowledging the engagement
announcement of a daughter of Carl von
Cotta.

2 p. on a card ; 9 x 12 cm.
Congratulating at the birth of Cotta's
grandson.

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.

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.

4 p. ; 19 cm.

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. ; 12 x 20 cm.

3 p. ; 20 x 24 cm.
With personal red seal attached.

3 p. ; 19 x 12 cm.
Signed: Grimm.
Concerns publication of an article on
the Edda.

46 numb. l. ; 20 x 26 cm.
Autograph ms.
Two leaves have text on verso; last
leaf has attached slip with
corrected text.
Read Nov. 10, 1922 before the
Dissenters Club, New Haven.

46 numb. l. ; 20 x 25 cm.
Autograph ms.
Eight leaves have text on verso.
Read May 15, 1925 before the Dissenters
Club, New Haven.

58 numb. l. ; 20 x 25 cm.
Autograph ms.
Two pages inserted after l. 41; 26 l.
have text on verso.
A revised version of the ms. with the
same title, dated May 15, 1925.
Read on Jan. 19, 1926 before the
Germanic Club at Yale University.

1 p. ; 19 x 23 cm.
With personal impressed seal.

2, 63, [13] p. ; 8.5 x 11 cm.
Duplicated typescript.
Copyright 1978.
"Translated and adapted by Herbert
and Uta Berghof."
The premier of this translation took
place at the Belasco Theater in New
York City in February 1980, starring
Uta Hagen as Charlotte.

1 p. ; 20 x 25 cm.
Häser wishes the editors of the
Musikalische Zeitung, in particular
Mr. Härtel, to edit his article
"Mitteilungen über Gesang und
Gesangsmethode" and print it in their
periodical.

2 p. on l. ; 9 x 10 cm.
Transmitting title of a book and
requesting back numbers of
"Kunstblatt," a supplement to the
Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände.

1 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.

4 p. ; 33 cm.
From manuscript compared with the
edition of Düsseldorf, 1835.
Removed from Christian Dietrich Grabbe,
Hannibal, Düsseldorf, 1835
(Zg19 G751 835h).

4 p. ; 18.5 x 22 cm.

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.

3 l. ; 28 cm.
Typescript (copy from published
version).
Poem, published in his Werke, New
York, 1844, v. 1.

Together with two letter fragments
on one double sheet.
At end of the complete letter an
attestation "Dass Gegenwärtiges
der bekannte Findling Kaspar
Hauser geschrieben hat, bezeugt,
Ansbach den 26. März 1844, Meyer,
als Hausers ehemal. Lehrer," with
red armorial seal.
Hauser was the much discussed
foundling whose real origin has
never been proven. - Meyers
Konversations-Lexikon, 1889.

1 p. ; 11 x 13 cm.

1 p. ; 13 x 20 cm.
Name of recipient erased.

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.

3 p. ; 11 x 19 cm.
Concerns Henning's second visit to
Goethe; he meets Ottilie von Goethe,
her sister, Ulrike von Pogwisch,
Hofrath Meier and Adele Schopenhauer.

4 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.

11 x 19 cm.

3 p. ; 14.5 x 19.5 cm.
Frau Herder inquires whether the Duke
will continue to pay certain monies
which he had formerly agreed to as
subventions for the education of her
four sons.
Published in Dietzmann, Goethe-
Schiller-Museum, Leipzig, 1858.

3 p. ; 14 x 19 cm.
2 1/4p. by Mrs. Herder, 1 3/4p. by
J. G. Herder.

1 p. ; 19 x 23 cm.
With address and red seal.
A farewell letter at Jandor's
departure for France.

2 p. ; 19 x 32 cm.
Permission granted to accept five
children in the orphanage; signed by
Herder as Fürstlich Sächs., zum Ober
Consistorio verordneter Praesident
und Räthe.

1 p. ; 17 x 19 cm.
Autograph poem.
Begins: Calligenes, ein Landmann.
The number 7 appears in upper right
hand corner.

149-174 p. of a larger manuscript ;
28 cm.
Typescript (original).
With a few pencil corrections.
With a hand-drawn colored map of
Thessaly.
Submitted in 1927 at Berlin to C. F.
Schreiber for comment; never
published.

1 p. ; 19 x 23 cm.
Letter of recommendation for the
painter Friedrich Alexander Macco
(Mako), who is coming to Dresden.

Signed H.v.F.
A Christmas letter, giving instructions
on the use of a toy he sent.

2 p. ; 22 cm.
Asking for biographical data of
several Belgian scholars.
Signed: H.v.F.

3 p. ; 22 cm.
Letter is continued on May 26.

2 p. ; 22 cm.
Signed: H.v.F.

1 p. ; 23 cm.
Letter of thanks at the occasion of
being made Knight of the Dutch order
of the Lion.

An Klein Roland-Hirsche. Undated. 2 p.
Zum 14. November 1869. 1 p.
Zum 15. Mai 1871. [Text in German and
Latin]. 4 p.
Immer derselbe, zum 19. Apr. 1871. 2 p.
Minna Hirsche! Vivat-Hoch! March 25,
1848. 3 p. [the latter in different
unidentified hand]
The first, third (German text only),
and fourth poem printed in the
author's Gesammelte Werke, Berlin,
1892, v. 6, p. 275-276, 258, and 276-
277, respectively.

AMs, note on back of his wife's
photograph, signed H.v.F., which is
mounted together with one of himself.
Ms. notes on verso of Hoffmann's
portrait contain quotations and the
note Dies Bild soll später mein Sohn
Hermann ... erhalten, dated 1879.

1 l. ; 29 cm.
Typescript (original).
Parody, in verse, of Goethe's Erlkönig.

12 numb. l. ; 16 x 25 cm.
Printed article with ms. corrections
and marginal notes.
Horne was apparently preparing copy for
a reprinting. The article is from the
Contemporary review.
Deals with a comparison of the Faust
versions of Marlowe and Goethe and
Calderon's El magico prodigioso.

1 p. ; 19 x 28 cm.

1 p. ; 12 x 20 cm. With envelope.

3 p. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Hub invites Eckermann to become a
contributor to the "Rheinisches
Odeon."

2 p. ; 10 x 16 cm.
Requesting Hofrath Adolf Müllner to
induce the author of article on the
Spanish inquisition pub. in
Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände to
submit further contributions. Mrs.
Huber was editor of the periodical.
On verso, the request to forward this
note to Hofrath Müllner.
Found in L.F. Huber's Sämtliche Werke,
Bd. 2, Tübingen, J.G. Cotta, 1810.

1 p. ; 18 x 23 cm.
Personal black seal attached.
Signed: John Chr. Huttner.