3 p. ; 12 x 20 cm. Black impressed initials BT. Discussing the favorable reception the first part of his translation of Goethe's Faust received at the hand of the public, and his present labors on part two.
3 p. ; 12 x 20 cm. With black impressed initials BT. Requesting the address of Frau von Goethe, to whom he wishes to send a copy of his translation of Goethe's Faust.
1 p. ; 23 cm., with envelope. Stating that her husband, Charles Fillingham Coxwell, who died in 1940, has done no further work in translating from Goethe. Coxwell is the translator of Goethe's Faust, part I.
2 p. ; 27 x 22 cm. Eckermann acknowledges the return of the manuscript of F. J. Soret's notes to his supplement to Eckermann's edition of Goethe's Gespräche mit Eckermann in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens, which Scharff had found among the papers of his late uncle C. T. Musculus.
2 p. ; 18 cm. with envelope. Accompanying a questionnaire sent him by Frantz; the answers include brief biographical sketch and his approach to translating Goethe's Faust.
2 p. ; 19 x 23 cm. Entreating Mrs. Stith to write down her meeting with Lord Byron for J. Wright's forthcoming book on the poet. Mrs. Stith apparently did not comply.
4 p. ; 18 x 23 cm. Announcing the dispatch of a copy of the English translation of Goethe's Faust, Pt. 2, done by his son, Leopold John Bernays, and asking for an evaluation of it.
2 p. ; 13 x 20 cm. A letter of introduction closing with "... in the meantime know - that Faust is the biggest sweep of my day. Nothing ever like it in London before."
2 p. ; 11.5 x 18.5 cm. "I enclose my cheque for £ 67 in payment of your account for printing "Faust". The publishers tell me I must go to press at once with a Second edition." The title was Faust, part I, A Dramatic Poem, by Goethe. Edinburgh and London, 1865.
2 p. ; 11 x 18 cm. With personal impressed seal. "I send you by book post the volume [Poems; Original and Translated, by Theodore Martin, London, Printed for private circulation, 1863] which contains my translation of a portion of the Second part of Faust. Whether I shall ever complete my version is very doubtful."
3 p. ; 11 x 18 cm. Two enclosures: Extracts from Goethe's posthumous papers, arranged and translated by Chorley: I. From a review of Carlyle's German Romances, AMs (in Chorley's hand), 4 p. ; 21 x 26 cm.; II. A notice of the Edinburgh & Foreign quarterly review, AMs (in Chorley's hand), 4 p. ; 20 x 25 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 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.
1 p. ; 23 x 29 cm. Letterhead: Die Königliche Bayerische Hof-Musik-Intendanz. "Seine Majestät der König hat die Aufführung der Faustsymphonie von Franz Liszt anzubefehlen geruht." Perfall requests Gille to have the necessary scores sent immediately to Munich. With: ALS : Munich, to Dr. Carl Gille May 17, 1866. 1 p. ; 23 x 29 cm. Same letterhead as above. Perfall returns with thanks the "Orchesterstimmen zum Mephistowalzer sowie die Chorstimmen zur Faustsymphonie."
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.
1 p. ; 19 cm. with envelope. Asking Pastor Besker to send his copy of Rilke's "Stunden-Buch," so he can write into it the lines which have moved Besker so much, and return it to him.
3 p. ; 11 x 17 cm. Letter within black border. Discusses her proposed biography of her husband. It was published as Life and letters of Bayard Taylor, ed. by Marie Hansen-Taylor and Horace E. Scudder, Boston, 1884, in 2 volumes.