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1 p., with address.
"The knight of the iron hand," the
German hero about whom Goethe
wrote his play, Götz von
Berlichingen.
Requesting to delay the matter of
certain fiefs which he and his
brothers were to receive.
Body of letter and signature in the
handwriting of a secretary.
Given in honor of Curt von Faber du
Faur by Herman W. Liebert, October
1958.

3 p. ; 29 cm.
A laudatory poem.
First line: Thut, Hochbegabter Herr,
wie ohne Schuld vor Zeiten.

1 p. with the grandducal seal, blind
over red wax, on second leaf.
New year's greetings.
Karl Friedrich's portrait attached.

AMs, 4 p. ; 18 x 21 cm.
Begins: "Vom gantzen Walde wählt mein
Lied."
The music to the cantata, which
according to Allgemeine deutsche
Biographie was never printed, was
composed by Johann Gottlieb Graun.
Princess Amalia was the sister of
Frederick the Great.
Published in Ramler's Lyrische
Gedichte, 1772.

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.

2 p. ; 19 x 22 cm.

3 p. ; 19 x 22.5 cm.

1 p. ; 20 x 35 cm.
Red personal seal attached.
A vaccination certificate for
Christopherus Ignatius Heinrich
Faust, born April 1763, signed: Dr.
Eisenbarth.

2 p. ; 18 x 22 cm.

1 p. ; 21 x 25 cm.
Seal cut out.
Formal request asking the duke to
stand godfather to his first-born
son, Gottlob Karl Wilhelm Friedrich.

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

1 p. ; 10 x 16 cm.
The last part of the 11th verse of
Galatians III, "The just shall live
by faith."
Signed: D. Carolus Friedricus Bahrdt.
Apparently p. 7-8 of an autograph
album.

1 p. ; 19 cm., mounted on inside of
folded double sheet opposite an
engraved portrait of Klopstock.
Only the last 5 lines are in
Klopstock's handwriting.
Announcing shipment of 20 copies of
"Gelehrten Republik" and giving
instructions to forward the
subscription payments to his sister.
A copperplate was enclosed as a memento.

2 p. ; 19 cm.
The letter is autobiographical and
about his work.
Engraved portrait of Lavater, by
Heinrich Pfenninger, mounted on
p.[3] of the double sheet.

2 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.

2 p. ; 12 x 19 cm.

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.

2 p. ; 33 x 20 cm.
With 3 official red seals.
Contract between editor and publisher
for the 1776-1777 issues of "Der
Teutsche Merkur."

2 p. ; 19 x 23 cm.

1 p. ; 17 x 21 cm.
Printed in Weimar Ausgabe.
Includes the four line poem Alles
geben Götter die unendlichen ...

4 p. ; 18 x 25 cm.
Enclosure of "ein Blättchen" on the
subject of the recent drowning of
an unnamed youth, not present.

1 p. 13 x 19 cm.
Handwritten note: Handschrift meines
Vaters Joh. Christian Kestner.
Hannover Aug. 1865. G. Kestner.

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

1 p. ; 19 x 9 cm.
Official impressed revenue seal.
Mounted.
With ms. note "N.B. Mr. Graves
afterwards rec'd as much more as made
it 200£." - Prof. Ian A. Gordon of
University of New Zealand says, this
endorsement is in the handwriting of
Bishop Thomas Percy.
Receipt for forty pounds in full for
the copyright of "The Sorrows of
Werter."
For explanation of the circumstances
concerning this receipt, see William
A. Speck's article "Revealing two
secrets of the Sorrowful Werter" in
The Literary digest international
book review, May, 1926; also Charles
J. Hill, "The first English
translation of Werther," in Modern
Language notes, 1932, v. 45.

1 p. ; 20 x 33 cm.
Official black seal attached.
Text within black border.
Signed: Carl August SWE.
With envelope.
Decrees that Güssefeld be bestowed
the "Praedicat eines Secretarii."

2 p. ; 33 x 20 cm.
Official impressed seal attached.
Co-signers: Freiherr von Fritsch and
C.F.? Schmauss.

2 p. ; 20 x 30 cm.
Concerns the possible purchase by
Griesbach of duplicates of
"autographis Lutheri et coaevorum"
from the ducal library.
Griesbach, a theology professor at Jena
for 36 years, was especially noted
for his critical edition of the New
Testament.

4 p. ; 19 x 23 cm.

1 p. ; 22 x 20 cm.
Handwriting not identified.
Not printed in Weimar Ausgabe.
Asking the unidentified recipient
to transmit an enclosed letter
to Michelangelo Salom at Padua,
the translator of Werther.

3 p. ; 19 x 27 cm.

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

2 p. ; 20 x 33 cm.
Official impressed seal attached.
Co-signer: C.F. Schmauss.
Concerns remission of certain taxes.

4 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.
Signed: C.A.SWE.

1 p. ; 20 x 33 cm.
Official impressed seal attached.
Goethe, in his capacity as Fürstl.
Sächs. Kriegs Commissar, signs a
document for the arrest of a
deserter, Johann Heinrich Scherf.

2 p. ; 11 x 17 cm.

2 p. ; 19 x 24 cm.
Personal red seal attached.

1 p. ; 19 x 23 cm.

2 p. ; 8 x 13 cm.
Autograph poem, signed.
Begins: "Mit Recht wünscht."
On p. [2] another poem: "An
ebendieselbe von ebendemselben,"
beginning: "Durch die vollkommenste
Dorothea."

2 p. ; 6 x 9 cm., mounted.
A note to a printer on the proof of a
bordered card; after certain
improvements he would like at least
a thousand cards.

1 p. ; 19 x 22.5 cm.

AMs, 28 l., incl. 14 watercolor
drawings ; 21 x 18 cm.
Title page and a few inscriptions on
the drawings in Schiller's hand.
Caricatures by Schiller, with
humorous explanations by L. F.
Huber, directed to Christian
Gottfried Körner.
Published with title: Der lachende
Tragiker (Humoristische Bilder;
hrsg. zum 150. Todestag von F.
Schiller), Stuttgart, 1955.