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.
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 Unpublished.-Pierre Beres sales list.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:
1809 Jan 18
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 15, folder 589
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 21 x 34 cm. In the handwriting of Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer. Note at top of page: "Copia eines Briefes Leipzig d. 18. Jan. 1809" in Goethe's hand. Recommending a young actor, Wessel, for the Weimar theater.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1812 Mar 12
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 20, folder 833
Image Count:
2
Description:
2 p. ; 34 x 21 cm. Letter written by Goethe's secretary Johann August Friedrich John and signed by Goethe, Printed in Weimar Ausgabe, Bd. XXII, Nr. 6273. Acc #: 19991115-e
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1828 Jul 18
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 293
Image Count:
2
Description:
2 p. ; 22 x 13 cm. Letter within mourning border. In Johann August Friedrich John's handwriting. Concerning the return of the book "Geschichte der Neugriechen" and the order of two others for the Weimar Library. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1819 May 28
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 270
Image Count:
2
Description:
3 p. ; 25 x 21 cm. In handwriting of Rinaldo Vulpius. Suggestions for an edition of German poets who write in Latin, which Blumenthal is planning to compile. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe, Goethe- Jahrbuch II, 1881, and Ungedrucktes aus dem Goethe-Kreise, 1896.
