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:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 15, folder 605
Image Count:
1
Description:
Autograph poem, signed (forgery), 1 p. ; 19 x 16 cm. Mounted. Begins: Wie tief liegt unter mir die Welt. This manuscript was sent to Weimar in April 1931 for examination and was declared a forgery, probably by G. H. K. J. V. von Gerstenbergk.
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:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 143
Image Count:
20
Description:
AMs, signed, 4 p. ; 19 x 23 cm. Enclosure: ALS : Jena, to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nov. 16, 1801. 3 p. ; 19 x 23 cm. Concerns the making of a general catalogue of the books contained in the Ducal and the Academic libraries in Weimar and Jena.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 223
Image Count:
2
Description:
AMs, 1 p. ; 13 x 21 cm. Ms. note on verso: Handschrift meines Schwiegervaters. Ottilie von Goethe; with 4 red seals showing the Goethe coat-of-arms. Ms. note on slip pasted on verso: ... obtained from Madame de Goethe ... in 1839. J. C. Reynolds of Richmond Va. Another ms. note: This stanza of Faust from the original was given to me by Gov. J. C. Reynolds Jan. 14, 1879. Mary Phelps Montgomery.
