From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1830 Oct 4
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 305
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p. mounted on cardboard ; 8 x 16 cm. The request is for Buffon, George Louis Leclerc, comte de: Histoire naturelle générale et particulière, Paris 1753, v. 4 [Quadrupèdes]. Cf. Keudell, E.v., Goethe als Benutzer der Weimarer Bibliothek, 1931, item 2158.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 10, folder 306
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p. ; 13 x 17 cm. Written on verso of a fragment of a larger manuscript which is in a different hand. Endorsing Christian August Vulpius as the author of a proposed book.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1819 Jan 20
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 10, folder 308
Image Count:
3
Description:
8 x 20 cm. With envelope "Goethe Handschrift unter einem Geschäftsbrief an Buchhändler Frommann in Jena." Pencilled on back of envelope: Handwriting on envelope Alwine Frommann, friend of Goethe.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1783 Mar 22
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 10, folder 312
Image Count:
2
Description:
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.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1809 Jul 27
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 10, folder 313
Image Count:
5
Description:
5 p. ; 21 x 34 cm. Official impressed seal attached; and with red seal. A contract establishing a pension for the two sons of Carl Ludwig Fernow, who are under the guardianship of Carl Bertuch. Co-signed by G. Voigt, Carl Bertuch, and von Wolfskeel.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1809 Oct 14
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 10, folder 314
Image Count:
3
Description:
3 p. ; 20 x 33 cm. Personal red seal attached. With notarization by von Wolfskeel, dated Oct. 16, 1809; with impressed seal attached. Conferring full rights upon Goethe's wife to act for him in settling the estate of his deceased mother Katharina Elisabeth Goethe. As assistant in this matter he appoints Friedrich Johann Heinrich Schlosser.
