From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1755 Apr 3
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 200
Image Count:
7
Description:
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.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1798 Jan 3
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 370
Image Count:
2
Description:
3 p. ; 14.5 x 19.5 cm. Frau Herder inquires whether the Duke will continue to pay certain monies which he had formerly agreed to as subventions for the education of her four sons. Published in Dietzmann, Goethe- Schiller-Museum, Leipzig, 1858.
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:
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.
