From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1819 Jan 20
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 10, folder 308
Image Count:
3
Description:
8 x 20 cm. With envelope "Goethe Handschrift unter einem Geschäftsbrief an Buchhändler Frommann in Jena." Pencilled on back of envelope: Handwriting on envelope Alwine Frommann, friend of Goethe.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1786
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 15, folder 604
Image Count:
31
Description:
AMs, 28 l., incl. 14 watercolor drawings ; 21 x 18 cm. Title page and a few inscriptions on the drawings in Schiller's hand. Caricatures by Schiller, with humorous explanations by L. F. Huber, directed to Christian Gottfried Körner. Published with title: Der lachende Tragiker (Humoristische Bilder; hrsg. zum 150. Todestag von F. Schiller), Stuttgart, 1955.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 31
Image Count:
9
Description:
Autograph poem, 4 p. ; 22 x 28 cm. English translation of the opening Canto of the Nibelungenlied. Nineteen stanzas in rhyme. Mr. Wise made Mr. Speck a present of several Borrow mss. These may have been among them. Typewritten copy enclosed.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 27
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 38
Image Count:
30
Description:
Including packaging for Faust nail polish stones and advertisements for the “Dalli” self-heating flat iron, which feature a humorously updated Gretchen
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 400
Image Count:
59
Description:
AMs, 99, 6 p. ; 22 x 18 cm. Manuscript continues on inside back cover. Yellow board cover. "Commonplace-book of F. Jacobi. Gift of Prof. Manthey-Zorn. W.A.S." pencilled on inside front cover by Mr. Speck. "No. 2" on outside cover.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1828
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 272
Image Count:
8
Description:
8 p. ; 21 x 34 cm. Goethe to Brühl: Jan. 17 & 26, Feb. 20, 1828; one undated. Brühl to Goethe: Jan. 10 & 22, Feb. 14 & 24, 1828. Copied by Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer preparatory to his edition of Briefe von und an Goethe, hrsg. von F. W. Riemer, Leipzig, Weidmann'sche Buchhandlung, 1846.
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.
