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1 p. ; 27 cm.
Declining invitation to visit the
Speck Collection.
Goethe scholar; since 1896, professor,
Department of Germanic languages,
Columbia University, New York.

3 p. ; 13 x 21 cm.
A report on the progress of the
illustrations for Faust von
Goethe, 1. Theil. Mit
Illustrationen von A. v. Kreling.
Munich, Friedrich Bruckmann,
1874-1877.

1 p. ; 21.5 x 27 cm.
Personal red seal attached.

2 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.
Personal red seal attached.
A request for permission to reprint
a first version Weimar manuscript of
Goethe's Iphigenie, for the purpose
of comparing it with an Oldenburg
manuscript. In 1839 Stahr issued:
"Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris in
ihrer ersten Gestalt."

4 p. ; 18 cm.
On stationery with black border.

3 p. ; 10 x 12 cm.
Letter of introduction for Mr. Clarke
Abel, the author of "Narrative of a
journey in the interior of China,
1816-17," 1818.

1 p. ; 16 x 21 cm.
Personal red seal attached.
This note brings together in one
document Stapfer, Villers, and
Dalberg, who all played an
important role during the
Napoleonic period and stood in
more or less close relation to
Goethe.

2 p. ; 11.5 x 17.5 cm.

3 p. on 2 l. ; 21 cm.
The initials before the signature are
illegible.
Note at end: Adr. Staatsrath Jacobi.
Submitting poems by B. H. Freudenfeld
for publication in the Morgenblatt
für gebildete Stände.
No enclosure.

4 p. ; 18 x 22 cm.

4 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.
"When Sir Charles Hallè first
produced in this country Berlioz'
Faust about 79 or 80 with English
text the chief artists in it were
Margaret
Edward Lloyd [etc.] ... Since that
time I have had the pleasure of
singing the part of 'Margaret' on
every occasion on which Sir Charles
Hallè has given the work ..."

2 p. ; 20 x 26 cm.
On Mrs. Stith's acquaintance with
Lord Byron.

3 p. ; 20 x 25 cm.

1 p. ; 21 x 18 cm.
Signed: S.
Includes hints in regard to securing
a permit for the presentation of
puppet-plays.
Goethe made sport of Schmidt's
literary product in a poem entitled
"Musen und Grazien in der Mark."

1 p. ; 12 x 19 cm.
Signed: Fritz Jacobi.

4 p. ; 12 x 21 cm.

4 p. ; 20 x 25 cm.
Signature: S. M. Fuller.

6 p. ; 12 x 20 cm.
With two impressed seals of Glasgow
University.

6 p. ; 10 x 15 cm.

3 p. ; 14 x 22 cm.

1 p. ; 19 x 22.5 cm.
Kotzebue makes suggestions to his
publisher for the marketing of an
"Opern Almanach."

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.

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

3 p. ; 20 x 25 cm.
Letters dated: Aug. 17, 27 & 28.

1 p. ; 12 x 20 cm.
"I know nothing whatever of the
subscription to a fund for the
proposed bust of Goethe. I have
never subscribed a hundred dollars
and the use of my name to which you
refer is wholly unauthorized."

1 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.
Letterhead: Blue monogram SWE.
After a long military career in
Great Britain, Prince Eduard
became field-marshal in the
service of Queen Victoria.
Request to have a dinner engagement
postponed.

3 p. ; 18 x 27 cm.
Author of "Wander-Epigramme", which
were submitted to Goethe for review
in "Kunst und Alterthum." Goethe
does not seem to have kept his
promise.

3 p. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Personal red seal attached.

2 p. ; 19 x 22.5 cm.

3 p. ; 12 x 19 cm.

4 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.
With envelope.
Thanking Hills for his gift of a copy
of his translation of Goethe's Faust,
and for an appreciative note in his
commentary.

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.

3 p. ; 19 x 31 cm.
James was the probable author of
"Letters of Charlotte." - Cf.
Shapiro, The identity of W. James, a
typed ms. article in the Speck Coll.
The authorship was earlier attributed
to William James, d.1777, of Denford,
Berks County by William A. Speck in
his article "Revealing two secrets of
the Sorrowful Werther," in Literary
Digest international book review,
v. 4, 1926.

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

2 p. ; 14 cm.
Offering a manuscript for publication.

1 p. ; 23 cm.
On stationery of the J. G. Cotta'sche
Buchhandlung.
Congratulations on the occasion of
Cotta's 25th wedding anniversary,
accompanied by Almanach von
Radierungen von M. von Schwind,
Zurich, 1844.
Removed from the volume described
above.

2 p. ; 23 x 20 cm.
Declining to complete the revision of
E. H. J. Münch's work, Franz von
Sickingen, and returning sixteen
corrected sheets for his own work,
Der Bodensee.
With address at top of p. 1.

1 p. ; 17 x 21 cm.
John was Goethe's secretary, 1812-14.

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.

2 p. ; 23 x 19 cm.
Removed from Schiller. Wallenstein.
French tr. Constant de Rebecque;
(Zg18.Sch332.i809).
Concerning the printing of his
translation of Schiller's
Wallenstein.

1 p. ; 13 x 21 cm.

4 p. ; 19 cm. with address
The pages are reinforced with Japan
paper.
On the last page written through the
address, in pencil, a draft of an
answer by the firm of Boosey & Sons.
Concerning a proposal for Coleridge to
write the letter-press for Moritz
Retzsch's Outlines to Goethe's Faust.
Printed in Schreiber, Carl F.:
Coleridge to Boosey - Boosey to
Coleridge, in Yale University Library
Gazette, 1947, v. 22, p. 6-10.

4 p. ; 22 x 26 cm.

2 p. ; 10 x 10 cm.
Apparently accompanying some
corrected data on Carlyle's life.
The note ends: "Besides have we not
eight translations of Faust
already? And it is the most
insignificant work I think (except
Werter) that bears the great
Goethe's name."

1 p. ; 19 x 20 cm.
Deals with the publication of
Das römische Carnival.
Beginning of 1789?
Published in Goethe-Jahrbuch and
Weimar Ausgabe.

1 p. ; 19 x 23 cm.
Personal red seal attached.

2 p. ; 13 x 21 cm.