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William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts, 1542-1967, bulk 1770-1900 14.22 Linear Feet

Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
The collection, a part of the William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana, consists of correspondence, documents, playscripts, and other writings by or relating to Goethe and his work. The major strength of the manuscript collection is its documentation of Goethe's literary reception in England and America in the nineteenth century. There are 25 letters and manuscripts in Goethe's hand, and several Faust-related items. Authors represented prominently besides Goethe include Thomas Carlyle, Frank Claudy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Faust collector Georg Ehrhardt, Walther Wolfgang von Goethe, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, University of Illinois professor Julius Goebel, Anna Jameson, Johann Caspar Lavater, Friederich von Müller, Henry Crabb Robinson, Friedrich Schiller, Carl Frederick Schreiber, Horatio Robinson Storer, Bayard Taylor, Marie (Hansen) Taylor, Karl August Ludwig Philipp Varnhagen von Ense, and Albert Wünsch.
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AMs, 1 p. l., 305, 4 p. diagrs. ; 23 cm. Title within border of leaf garlands, with the Zodiac at bottom. "Traduit du texte original hebraique en latin par le scauant négromancien Corneille Agrippa, et mise en françois par le Raby Nazar, chef de la Société de la grande Cabale de la Ville d'Arte ... le tout exactement copié sur l'original qui est conservé dans la Bibliothèque de Florence, l'année 1732." Note on p. 1. Bound in full red crushed morocco, both covers gilt tooled, with fleurons, spine compartmented (6), heavily gilt, all edges gilt.

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  2. William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts, 1542-1967, bulk 1770-1900
  3. Box and Folder List, 1542-1967
  4. AGRIPPA VON NETTESHEIM, HEINRICH CORNELIUS

Document, signed : Weimar, to the Administration of Eisenach, 1771 Nov 29 Box 1, Folder 3

2 p. ; 22 x 23 cm.
Official impressed seal attached.
Concerning filling of a vacancy in
the "March-Commissarien Stelle."

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  2. William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts, 1542-1967, bulk 1770-1900
  3. Box and Folder List, 1542-1967
  4. ANNA AMALIA, DUCH. OF SAXE-WEIMAR-EISENACH, 1739-1807