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21 p. ; 20-22 cm.
January 16, 1838 to July 8, 1842.
Chiefly concerning contributions by
Vischer to the Hallesche Jahrbücher
für Kunst und Wissenschaft and
Deutscher Musenalmanach of which
Ruge was co-editor.
The letters of Jan. 16 and Dec. 10,
1838 include references to works on
Goethe's Faust.
Published by Adolph B. Benson in
Philological quarterly, v. 3.,
p. 32-47.
With: ALS : Tübingen, to Lauppische
Buchhandlung in Leipzig, 1842 Apr 5;
pertaining to the Collier edition of
Shakespeare's works.

28 p. ; various sizes.
1920 Feb 23, Kew Gardens, L.I. with
envelope.
1920 Mar 3, Kew Gardens, L.I. with
envelope.
1920 May 3, Kew Gardens, L.I. with
envelope.
1920 May 11, Kew Gardens, L.I.
1920 May 17, Kew Gardens, L.I.
1920 Jun 10, correspondence card.
1921 Apr 19, Partenkirchen.
1921 Aug 10, Partenkirchen.
1922 Dec 10, Partenkirchen.
1925 Sep 13, Partenkirchen, within
black border.
n.d., Kew Gardens, L.I.
All bearing on her father's interest
in Goethe.

29 pieces ; various sizes.
Sep. 16, 1913-Autumn 1919.
2 correspondence cards and 2 letters
are directed to Clotilde and her
husband Alexander Sacharoff.
With: ALS : Vienna, to Marianne
Mitford-Friedlaender, Feb. 20, 1916.
Most letters with envelopes.
Some of these letters were published
in full, a few in excerpt, by Klaus
W. Jonas, in: Monatshefte für
deutschen Unterricht, v. 58, 1966.
Typed transcriptions are with letters.

1831 Sep 7
3 p. ; 20 x 34 cm.
In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand.
Both letters printed in full in the
Weimar Ausgabe, the first under the
date of January 28.
This is clearly material for a
contemplated edition of Goethe's
letters.

1903 Apr 8

1916 Nov 1
3 p. ; 12.5 x 20 cm.
With: Related notes and correspondence
concerning an essay on Goethe by
John Lothrop Motley.

1918 Aug 26

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.

6 p. ; 11 x 14 cm. and 22 x 14 cm.
Account of his visit to Preller and
other Weimar artists and scholars.

1898 Oct 26
7 x 12 cm. and 9.5 x 14 cm.

3 p. ; 12 x 10 cm.
On p. 4: Die vorstehende Charade ist
von Mademoiselle Henriette Bodmer im
Wind-Egg componiert, einer Enklin
von Herr Escher v.d.L.
All, incl. the note on p. 4, in the
same unidentified handwriting.
Removed from Lavater, Johann Caspar:
Erwekkungs-Predigt, Zürich, 1798.

With 3 envelopes.
December 15, 1891 to June 30, 1916.
Concerning Goethe and Schiller medals.
Some letters accompanied by slips
bearing embossed impressions of
medals; on lower portion of letter
of May 31, 1896 an impression of a
Schiller medal.
Letter of September 8, 1895 on
stationery of Newport Sanitary
Protection Association.
With these letters is a printed list
of H. R. Storer's published papers
on numismatics.
Storer was a gynecologist, medical
numismatist, lecturer, and author of
medical works.

15 p. ; 17 x 11 cm.
Letters dated: Mar. 22, 27 and Aug.
31, 1894.
Removed from Gustav Adolf Müller,
Sesenheim, wie es ist, Bühl, 1894.
The Yale copy is inscribed by the
author to Dr. J. Leyser.

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.

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.

Um gute Federn auf die Reis [Title:
An Anna], May 1, 1789, 4 p. ; 12
x 6 cm.
Freüe Dich Deines Manns, Basel, May
18, 1799, 1 p. ; 5 x 9 cm.
Komm! Herr Jesu! [Title: Seüfzer],
Oct. 7, 1799, 1 p. ; 9 x 5 cm.
Removed from Johann Caspar Lavater's
Erwekkungs-Predigt, Zürich, 1798.

Postcards dated: Jun. 24, 1915; Jul.
20, 1915; Jan. 6, 1916; Jan. 5,
1918.
Mostly acknowledgments.
With: Postcard, signed, from Fred E.
Woodward to William Alfred Speck.
1911 Mar 17, Washington, D.C.
Stating Frank Claudy has not done
any work on his translation of part
2 of Goethe's Faust, and does not
intend to do so.

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.

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.

30 p.
1915 Mar 20, Munich
1919 Feb 19, Munich
1920 Dec 1, Schloss Berg am Irchel
1921 Apr 11, Schloss Berg am Irchel
1921 Dec 4, Chateau de Muzot
1921 Dec 24, Chateau de Muzot
1924 Aug 19, Chateau de Muzet
With: Autograph poem (pencil), to F. A.
Hünich; n.d.; 1 p.; first line: Ich
komme mir leicht verstorben vor.
The poem is printed in F. A. Hünich's
Rilke-Bibliographie, v. 1, 1935,
p. 85.
All removed from Speck Collection
copy of Rilke, R. M., Aus der
Frühzeit Rainer Maria Rilkes, 1921.

11 p. ; various sizes
Letters dated: Jan. 30, 1798; Aug. 5,
1799; Nov. 4, 1799; Mar. 3, 1800;
Apr. 2, 1800; Apr. 10, 1800 and Jun.
8, 1803.
All in the handwriting of Goethe's
secretary Ludwig Geist.
The first six letters concern the
publication of Goethe's Neue
Schriften, Berlin, J.F. Unger, 1792-
1800, 7 vols. The last is a letter of
thanks for Unger's gift of a copy of
Chr. E. von Kleists Sämtliche Werke.
All printed in Weimar Ausgabe.
With: Two letters from Bernhard Suphan
to Prof. K. Budde in Bonn, dated May
27, 1888 and July 11, 1888.

Letters dated: Apr. 25 (2 p.); May 11
(2 p.); Jul. 10 (3 p.); Aug. 2
(4 p.); Sep. 8 (2 p.); Dec. 4 (2 p.)
and Dec. 15 (1 p.).
Letter of Sep. 8 with enclosure: Sep.
2, Weimar "Serbische Gedichte wären
nach meiner Ansicht folgendermassen
zu ordnen", 4 p., signed.
In the handwriting of Goethe's
secretary, Johann August Friedrich
John.
With English translations, typed.
All are printed in the Weimar Ausgabe.

28 p. ; various sizes.
1910 Mar 6, New York.
1910 Mar 18, Kennett Square,
Pennsylvania.
1910 Mar 30, New York.
1912 Mar 22, New York.
1914 Nov 15, New York.
1920 Apr 4, Gotha, Germany; with
envelope.
1922 Feb 7, Partenkirchen; with
envelope.
1922 Feb 12, Partenkirchen; with
envelope.
1925 Feb 16; Partenkirchen.
With: ALS from Lilian Bayard Taylor
Kiliani to William Alfred Speck.
Feb. 16, 1925. Partenkirchen.
2 p. ; 18 x 14 cm. All ten letters
bear on Bayard Taylor's translation
of Goethe's Faust and the whereabouts
of Taylor's manuscripts.

1) Die verwandelten Weiber; oder, Der
Teufel ist los. Lustspiel in 3
Aufzügen, 1882.
AMs, signed, 87 p. ; 21 x 17 cm.
Title from label on cover.
Signed: Albert Wünsch. Orderan den
13ten Juli 1882.
Based on Christian Felix Weisse's opera
of the same title, which was set to
music by Johann Adam Hiller.

AMs, 2 l. ; 25 x 20 cm.

2 p. ; 18 cm.
Autograph ms. in German, signed (xerox
copy).
Written on the back of end papers of
the Speck Collection copy of [Beyle,
Marie Henri], Rome, Naples et
Florence en 1817 (Paris, 1817),
Dd4 817b.

AMs, 24 p. ; various sizes.
Several poems in Mrs. Taylor's hand,
and one composed by her, Dec. 20,
1872.
Contents: Da die Gläser sind noch
nicht leer; Kennst du das Land, wo
schönste Braten blühen (parody of
Goethe's "An Mignon"); Abschiedslied;
Edles Paar, ihr habt vom tiefen
Kelch des Lebens; Lieblich, sanft
und milde; Ich wandl' auf deiner
Pfad, Natur!; Nachdem der
Neujahrstag war gekommen; Das Wetter
(by Marie Taylor); Wohngedicht; Ich
habe unausstehlichen Durst; Wer
leidet an einem bösen Husten; Die
durst'ge Erde trinkt den Regen;
Leidevoll, kreidevoll (parody of
Goethe's "Freudvoll und leidvoll");
Der Versuch deutsche Gedichte; Das
Lied vom schläfrigen Manne; Gelobet
sei Schlaf!; Er legt sich auf's Heu;
Die Hinterbliebenen traurig; Ich
sitze in der Laube; An die liebe,
gute Tante; Vom Nordkay.

1 p. ; 30 x 20 cm.
In an unidentified hand, not Karl
August's.
Includes notation of payments to Frau
v. Heygendorf, née Jagemann, and to
Jagemann.

AMs (rough draft and corrected
version), 5, 5 l. ; 26 cm.

8, 13, 13 p. ; 28 cm.
Typescript with a few corrections.

17 leaves ; 33 x 24 cm.

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

4 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.
In the handwriting of Alfred
Nicolovius.
Advising of Goethe's visit to Weimar
during the winter 1775/76, and of
his recent appointment as
Legationsrat by Duke Carl August.
The original letter was presented to
the Weimar Landesbibliothek in 1825.
[Zu Goethe's Jubelfeier zu Weimar. Am
7. November 1825]
With: Other material related to
Goethe's Jubelfeier in 1825.

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

3 p. ; 21 x 34 cm.
In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand.
Apparently the ms. for the printed
letter in Riemer's "Briefe von und
an Goethe", p. 169. Not in Weimar
Ausgabe.

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.

4 p. ; 21 x 34 cm.
In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand.
Published in Weimar Ausgabe, v. 42,
p. 107.

4 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.
The last part of the letter has
apparently been lost.

4 p. ; 21 cm.
The complete letter is printed in Karl
Theodor Gaedertz, Goethes Minchen,
auf Grund ungedruckter Briefe, 1887,
p. 46-60.

8 numb. l. ; 28 cm.
Typescript (original).
Article about Huth's translation of
Goethe's Faust I.

2 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.

13 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.
Chiefly an appreciation of G. H.
Lewes' work, Life of Goethe.

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

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

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

1 p. ; 22 x 18 cm.
Signed: G.
In Goethe's handwriting, with note
in upper left hand corner in
another hand: "Von Göthen, als er
wollte, dass ich den Artikel über
die Aufführung des Hamlets[?]
unterdrücken sollte."
In upper right hand corner: "79"
-- i.e. 1779?

2 p. ; 12 x 20 cm.

3 p. ; 20 x 25 cm.

3 p. ; 20 x 25 cm.

3 p. ; 12 x 20 cm.

3 p. ; 13 x 20 cm.

3 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.
Personal red seal attached.

3 p. ; 18 x 23 cm.

2 p. ; 12 x 20 cm.

1 p. ; 18 x 23 cm.

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

2 p. ; 12 x 20 cm.

1 p. ; 18 x 23 cm.

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

1 p. ; 18 cm.
Signed in the same handwriting: Martha
Day Porter, Rebecca Taylor Porter.
Directing their executor to give their
copy of Schiller's Wallenstein,
translated by Coleridge, autographed
by Wadsworth, to Rev. Wm. B. Clarke,
Yale 1849, Durham Conn., or to his
daughters Helen MacGregor Clarke and
Jane Baker Clarke.
Removed from J. C. F. v. Schiller,
Wallenstein, translated by S. T.
Coleridge, London, 1800, in the Speck
Collection.

3 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.
With impressed seal.
Enclosure: Twenty-seven lines from
Martin's translation of Goethe's
Faust, pt.I, beginning "Him who
dares name", dedicated to Hermann
Kindt.
Kindt is the author of Goethe's Faust
in England, 1874.

3 p. ; 11 x 17 cm.
Signed: Fanny Stirling.

1 p. ; 20 x 33 cm.
With address: An Herrn Buchhändler
Dietrich in Göttingen.
Personal red seal attached.

1 p. ; 12 x 18 cm.
Autograph poem, signed: Goethe
First printed in Ost und West, Prag,
1837; later in Weimar Ausgabe with
title: An Friedrich Förster; also
in Förster's posthumous papers,
with title: Drei Begegnungen.
With an explanatory autograph note
by Förster.

2 p. ; 11 x 17 cm.

1 p. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Dorer-Egloff, Swiss official and
literary historian, was one of the
foremost Goethe scholars of his
time.

4 p. ; 12 x 21 cm.
Accompanying a contribution to the
Literatur Blätter, which apparently
was a passage from her late husband,
Jean Paul Richter's Gedankenbuch,
praising Goethe's genius.

3 p. ; 10.5 x 13 cm.
A picture of Charlotte Kestner will
be sent on request to Mrs. Taylor
by the nephew, Dr. Kestner.

3 p. ; 11 x 18 cm., with envelope.
Both letter and envelope with black
border.
Landor excuses his delay in replying
for the reason: "I could not, by
any exertion of ingenuity, decipher
your signature. Do you write your
name in such a manner, that nobody
may attempt forgery? ... I remember
to have red[!], fifty years ago,
Theseus, a Monodrama by Stolberg.
Of course I mean in the translation.
It is the only Greek modern thing I
ever saw. Goethe is so little
hellenic that he represents
Iphegenia (a girl of 12 or 13)
arguing on the injustice done to
the sex in various ways. His
tragedy is insufferably dull."

3 p. ; 13 x 18 cm.
Signed: Jean Paul Fr. Richter.

4 p. ; 11 x 19 cm.
Apparently directed to a German
publishing house, which had
requested her to translate a volume
of correspondence. She explains her
unwillingness; her "work on Goethe
[Characteristics of Goethe, London,
1833] has [not] had a sufficient
sale to encourage me much ... Need
I say they [the public] complain
that Goethe is obscure."

1 p. ; 18 cm., with envelope.
Submitting a requested
autobiographical sketch with
answers to a questionnaire on
Coxwell's translation of Goethe's
Faust, part I.
Enclosure: Autobiographical sketch
and questionnaire answered.

1 p. ; 18 cm., with envelope.
Submitting an addition to the
autobiographical sketch, sent
to Frantz on May 6.

6 p. ; 13.5 x 21 cm.
In English.

3 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.

3 p. ; 20 x 24 cm.

1 p. ; 17 cm.
With address and armorial seal.
Letter of introduction for three
unnamed young men.

4 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.

1 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.

4 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.

1 p. ; 22 x 26 cm.
Personal red seal attached.

1 p. ; 22 cm.
Concerns an evening lecture on the
subject of revolution and lyrical
poetry and referring to a passage
in Goethe on the same topic.
An announced enclosure is not present.