Collection Title: William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) / Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Creator:: From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:: 1851 Feb 4
Call Number:: YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:: Box 11, folder 420
Image Count:: 4
Description:: 2 p. ; 19 x 23 cm. With personal red seal attached.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > JAMESON, MRS. ANNA BROWNELL (MURPHY), 1794-1860 > ALS : Dresden, to Miss Charlotte Murphy

Creator:: From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:: 1886 Jul 6
Call Number:: YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:: Box 5, folder 175
Image Count:: 5
Description:: 2 p. ; 11 x 18 cm. Enclosure: Pen sketch of Henry Irving as Mephistopheles; 11 x 18 cm.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > FITZGERALD, WILLIAM > ALS : Eastbourne, to Bram Stoker

Creator:: From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:: 1784 Apr 10
Call Number:: YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:: Box 15, folder 611
Image Count:: 5
Description:: 2 p. ; 19 x 24 cm. Personal red seal attached.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > SCHLOSSER, JOHANN GEORG, 1739-1799 > ALS : Emmendingen, to Johann Heinrich Merck

Creator:: From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:: 1798 Jul 10
Call Number:: YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:: Box 15, folder 602
Image Count:: 3
Description:: 3 p. ; 18 x 23 cm. Contains favorable criticism of Archenholz's account of the evacuation of Toulon and suggests to him as the theme for a future treatise the American Revolution. Published in Schiller's Briefe, hrsg. von Fritz Jonas, 1892, v. 4, no. 877.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON, 1759-1805 > ALS : Jena, to Johann Wilhelm Archenholz

Creator:: From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:: 1801 Nov 23
Call Number:: YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:: Box 3, folder 144
Image Count:: 6
Description:: 1 p. ; 19 x 23 cm.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > ERSCH, JOHANN SAMUEL, 1766-1828 > ALS : Jena, to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Creator:: From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:: 1830 Feb 5
Call Number:: YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:: Box 5, folder 191
Image Count:: 2
Description:: 2 p. ; 22 x 26 cm. Forwarding some sample pages of parallel German and French text of Goethe's Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > FROMMANN, FRIEDRICH JOHANNES, 1797-1886 > ALS : Jena, to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Creator:: From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:: 1781 Aug 17
Call Number:: YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:: Box 10, folder 347
Image Count:: 4
Description:: 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.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GRIESBACH, JOHANN JAKOB, 1745-1812 > ALS : Jena, to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?

Creator:: From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:: 1793 Sep 15
Call Number:: YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:: Box 15, folder 603
Image Count:: 3
Description:: 2 p. ; 12 x 18 cm. Signed: S. Announcing the birth of a son.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON, 1759-1805 > ALS : Ludwigsburg, to Christian Gottfried Körner

Creator:: From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:: 1813 Aug 9
Call Number:: YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:: Box 9, folder 283
Image Count:: 2
Description:: 1 p. ; 17 x 21 cm. John was Goethe's secretary, 1812-14.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > ALS : Teplitz, to Ernst Carl Christian John

Creator:: From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:: 1835 Aug 17
Call Number:: YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:: Box 11, folder 411
Image Count:: 7
Description:: 4 p. ; 20 x 23 cm. With personal red seal attached. Watercolor sketch on letterhead.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > JAMESON, MRS. ANNA BROWNELL (MURPHY), 1794-1860 > ALS : Traunkirchen, to Mrs. D. B. Murphy

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