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:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 9
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 25
Image Count:
2
Description:
Autograph ms., signed. [2] p. 27 x 33 cm. Caption titles. An Mignon: Ueber Thal und Fluss getragen, song for one voice with piano accompaniment. Words of the first stanza with music; second-fourth stanzas at bottom of page. At end: Göthe. Mus. v. Zelter. Wonne der Wehmuth: Trocknet nicht, song for one voice with piano accompaniment. At end: Göthe. Mus. v. Zelter. An Mignon, with the melody as in the ms., but with different accompaniment, was pub. in Melodien zum Schillerschen Musenalmanach, 1798, and again in Zelter's Zwölf Lieder am Klavier zu singen, Berlin, 1801, bei G.F. Starke. Wonne der Wehmuth is apparently unpublished. A second ms., in the Preussische Staats-Bibliothek Berlin, differs slightly. - cf. Letter from A. Kippenberg, Sept. 3, 1931 [in folder with ms.]
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 9
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 25
Image Count:
2
Description:
Autograph ms., signed. [2] p. 27 x 33 cm. Caption titles. An Mignon: Ueber Thal und Fluss getragen, song for one voice with piano accompaniment. Words of the first stanza with music; second-fourth stanzas at bottom of page. At end: Göthe. Mus. v. Zelter. Wonne der Wehmuth: Trocknet nicht, song for one voice with piano accompaniment. At end: Göthe. Mus. v. Zelter. An Mignon, with the melody as in the ms., but with different accompaniment, was pub. in Melodien zum Schillerschen Musenalmanach, 1798, and again in Zelter's Zwölf Lieder am Klavier zu singen, Berlin, 1801, bei G.F. Starke. Wonne der Wehmuth is apparently unpublished. A second ms., in the Preussische Staats-Bibliothek Berlin, differs slightly. - cf. Letter from A. Kippenberg, Sept. 3, 1931 [in folder with ms.]
