From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1820 Sep 27
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 8, folder 245
Image Count:
1
Description:
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.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1827 Jul 20
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 8, folder 246
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 20 x 20 cm. Autograph poem (Draft). The title on the ms. reads: An Madame Carlyle, nach Edenburg. First line: Augenblicklich aufzuwarten. With: Another poem (Draft) "Mit einer Drahtkette" on the same leaf. First line: Wirst du in den Spiegel blicken. With: Another poem (Draft) "Zum Regenbogen" on the same leaf. Fourth verse only, first line: Aus des Regens düstrer Trübe.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1831 Aug 28
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 8, folder 254
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p. ; 20 x 23 cm. Autograph ms., signed Poem beginning: Worte, die der Dichter spricht. Addressed to William Fraser, editor of the Magazine for Town and Country. Personal, red attached seal with motto: Ohne Hast, Aber Ohne Rast. First pub. with title An die neunzehn Freunde in England, in the periodical Chaos, No. 6, Jahrg. 2. Also pub. as no. 2 of Facsimiles and reproductions of unique and rare items from the William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana. With: Facsimile of the Chaos number containing the printed text; photographed with this is the ms. apparently given to Ottilie von Goethe for the Chaos, with title written in by Eckermann: An die Neunzehn Freunde in England.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1824 Oct 29
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 8, folder 253
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 23 x 20 cm. Autograph poem. Unpublished.-Pierre Beres sales list. In honor of the 20th birthday of Ottilie von Goethe's sister, Ulrike von Pogwisch.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1831
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 8, folder 255
Image Count:
2
Description:
2 p. ; 34 x 21 cm. Autograph ms., in pencil. Rough draft of his poem entitled Der Demoiselle Schmehling nach Aufführung des Hassischen Sta. Elena al Calvario. Leipzig 1771. The second stanza has title: An Madame Mara zum frohen Jahresfeste. Weimar 1831. Both stanzas were written in 1831. Written on a discarded leaf of a letter to Goethe, one side already had been used by him for jotting down some notes. The text is almost indecipherable. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe, v. 4, p. 298.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1828 Jan 1
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 259
Image Count:
3
Description:
On pink card ; 8 x 11 cm., within embossed leaf border. Autograph poem, signed. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe with heading: An Frau Carlyle, Weimar, den 27. December 1827[!] A stickpin with medallion portrait of Goethe is affixed; both poems in a leather case with gilt lettering: Greeting to Thomas Carlyle from Goethe 1828. With: Another greeting card with poem: Wenn Phoebus Rosse sich zu schnell. On card ; 13 x 9 cm., within gold leaf border. Autograph poem, signed, with heading: Den lieben treuen Edinburger Gatten zum Neuenjahre 1828. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe with heading: An Frau Clementine von Mandelsloh, with date Weimar, am kürzesten Tage 1827.
