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

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.

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

3 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.

4 p. ; 19 cm.

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

2 p. ; 22 x 26 cm.
Signed: J. A. von Goethe.
Personal red seal attached.

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.

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.

AMs, 4 p. ; 20 x 24 cm.
Report on a conversation with Goethe.
Supplied by Mr. Speck from this
manuscript for the 1911 edition of
Biedermann's Goethes Gespräche, in
which the contents appear under nos.
2460 and 2986.

2 p. ; 22 x 26 cm.
Forwarding some sample pages of
parallel German and French text of
Goethe's Versuch die Metamorphose
der Pflanzen zu erklären.

1 p. ; 13 x 19 cm.
Concerns his opinion of Friedrich
von Schiller.

1 p. ; 27 x 21 cm.
Letter written in an unidentified
hand and signed by Goethe.
Printed in Weimar Ausgabe, Bd. XLVI,
Nr. 205.
Acc #: 19991115-f

4 p. ; 12 x 21 cm.

3 p. ; 21 x 24 cm.
Enclosure: "Vorschlag zu einem
Weimarischen Lexikon."
Published in Carl F. Schreiber's Sieben
Briefe Varnhagens von Ense an Johann
Peter Eckermann, in Journal of
English and Germanic philology,
v. 21, July, 1922.

2 p. ; 13 x 22 cm.
Thanking for several recent articles
on Goethe.
Zelter is happy to perceive that the
younger generation is active in its
researches on Goethe.

1 p. ; 21 x 31 cm.
Paganini legally appoints Dr.
Reinganum to act for him in all
matters.
With a sheet entitled "Paganini, in
Weimar" containing 5 pictures of
the artist in different poses,
issued by A. Böhme.

1 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.
Personal black seal attached.

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

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.

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 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.

4 p. ; 21 x 34 cm.
In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand.
Printed in Weimar Ausgabe.

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

1 p. ; 26 cm.
Requesting an advance on his
royalties; hopes to take over the
translation and editing work for
Polish newspapers, and asking for
the letters of Prof. von Raumer
from France, during the year 1830,
so he may prepare them for
publication.

3 p. ; 19 x 23 cm.
Personal black seal attached.

4 p. ; 21 x 26 cm.
The watermark of the paper is a
portrait of Duke Carl August of
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
A letter of introduction for Riemer's
son, Bruno, who is about to
re-enter the Cadettenschule at
Potsdam. Riemer states he is again
intensively occupied with the
Goethe correspondence.

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

1 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.

4 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.

4 p. ; various sizes.
Letters dated: Oct. 18, Nov. 10 and
Nov. 15, 1832.
All bearing on illustrations to be
supplied for the 15 supplementary
volumes to Goethe's Ausgabe letzter
Hand.

1 p. ; 18 x 23 cm.

AMs, 3 p. ; 33 x 20 cm.

13 p. ; various sizes.
Written chiefly in his capacity as
editor of The New Monthly magazine.
Letters dated: Mar. 12, 1832 (1 p.,
signed: ELB); Undated (1 p. with
address, signed: ELB); Jul. 2, 1832
(1 p. with address, signed: El
Bulwer); Undated (2 p., signed: EBL);
Undated (2 p., signed: EBL); Dec. 4,
no year (2 p., signed: EBL); Undated
(1 p., signed: EBL); Jun. 20, 1845
(1 p., signed: EB Lytton); Mar. 1855
(2 p., signed: EB Lytton).
With: One mounted portrait and one
caricature showing Bulwer Lytton,
newspaper-clipping with biographical
sketch and a clipping with article
"Bulwer Lytton's life of misery with
beautiful Irish girl" from "The
Sunday News", London, Oct. 11, 1925,
in the same folder.

2 p. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Personal red seal attached.

5 p. ; 21 x 26 cm.

1 p. ; 18 x 22 cm.
Personal red seal attached.

3 p. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Small slip attached, 1 p. ; 6 x
13 cm.
Red and black personal seal attached.

3 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.
The enclosure, von Müller's Epilog,
written on the occasion of the
memorial exercises for Goethe's
death, not present.
This letter pub. in Allgemeine
Zeitung, Beilage, 1905, no. 74 and
75, in his article: Sieben Briefe
des Kanzlers von Müller an Abeken.

3 p. ; 20 x 25 cm.

2 p. ; 20 x 25 cm.
Personal black seal attached.

4 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.

2 p. ; 20 x 23 cm.
Personal red seal attached.

2 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.

1 p. ; 17 x 20 cm.
For receiving pension of 350 Thaler
for the Christmas quarter from
"Grossherzogl. Kammer Central Casse."
A postscript, signed F.L. Gaucke? and
dated Weimar, Oct. 3, 1832,
testifies that Frau von Heygendorf
is still living.

3 p. ; 18 x 23 cm.

1 p. ; 18 x 23 cm.

1 p. ; 13 x 22 cm.
Published in Carl F. Schreiber's Sieben
Briefe Varnhagens von Ense an Johann
Peter Eckermann, in Journal of
English and Germanic philology,
v. 21, July, 1922.

3 p. ; 18 x 23 cm.
Personal red seal attached.

12 p. ; 23 x 19 cm.
Personal seals attached.
1833 Dec 18, Charleston, S.C.
1834 Oct 27, Philadelphia.
1834 Nov 27, Philadelphia.
Published in the South Atlantic
Quarterly, v. 22, no. 1, 1923.