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.
AMs, 128 p. ; 14 x 23 cm. and 18 x 21 cm. Published in his Kunst und Leben; aus Friedrich Förster's Nachlass, hrsg. von Hermann Kletke, Berlin, 1873, p. 164-239.
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.
Typescript, 11 l. ; 28 cm. The last 3 pages numbered 277-279, apparently from another version of this ms. Used as basis for the chapter on Alice Raphael's translation of Faust in Frantz's "Half a hundred thralls to Faust," published in 1949. Enclosure: Replies to Mr. Adolf Frantz's questionnaire [autobiographical sketch by Alice Raphael].
1 l. ; 28 cm. Typescript (original). Poem. At head of title: Ein Gedicht gewidmet zu Hermann J. Muller. Autograph superscription: Geehrter Professor Faber du Faur! Parody of Goethe's poem Gefunden.
2 p. ; 37 cm. Announcing Bayard Taylor's enrollment as foreign honorary member of the Freie Deutsche Hochstift. The official record of this appointment, referred to as being enclosed, is not present. Enclosure: ALS from Dr. G.H. Otto Volger, as president of the Freie deutsche Hochstift, to Bayard Taylor, dated July 4, 1878. 3 p. ; 29 cm. On stationery of the Society. Welcoming Taylor as fellow member and expressing the hope he may find in the facilities of the society inspiration to further his studies in Goethe literature.
3 p. ; 20 x 33 cm. Signed: Schnaubert, p.t. prorector. With 4 opinions, signed: H. Griesbach; W. Schmid. Paulus: v. Eckardt, C. Walch, v. Schellwitz, Hufeland, Nicolaj, Grandl; Saccow, Hennings, Schütz, Stark, Ulrich, Heinrich, Voigt, respectively. Concerning the water-supply at Jena. Griesbach served for many years as a member of the municipal council at Jena.
2 p. ; 13 x 21 cm. Enclosure: A list of the contents of a parcel which Minna Herzlieb-Walch had turned over to Alwine Frommann. On verso of one of the notes some pencil remarks by Andrew Hamilton concerning Taylor's proposed visit to Goethe.
15 p. ; 16 x 20 cm. Tied with green ribbon. Partial contents: Passages from Wieland, good for mottoes or otherwise; The two rules of Archytas; Mrs. Austin's Characteristics of Goethe. Endorsed by K.F. Fuller, Oct. 17, 1859.
13 p. ; 23 x 14 cm. Letters dated: May 19, Jun. 17, Oct. 6, 1898; May 27, Jun. 25, 1900; and May 7, 1903. 3 Postcards : Berlin, signed, to William Alfred Speck. Dated Aug. 13, 1899, Apr. 4, 1900 and Jun. 17, 1903. All bearing on pictorial contributions from the Speck collections for the Goethe-Jahrbuch, edited by Geiger.
4 p. ; 19 x 22 cm. Enclosure: German copy and English translation of this letter. Chiefly Gellert's reaction to Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison.
3 p. ; 22 x 26 cm. Gersdorf, prime minister of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, represented Grandduke Karl August at the Congress of Vienna. He sends on request a short sketch of his life corrected and enlarged from Graebner's book on Weimar. Whether this material is meant for a new edition of Graebner, or another venture is difficult to determine. The autobiographical sketch not present.