From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1782 Feb 20
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 267
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 22 x 20 cm. Handwriting not identified. Not printed in Weimar Ausgabe. Asking the unidentified recipient to transmit an enclosed letter to Michelangelo Salom at Padua, the translator of Werther.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 224
Image Count:
3
Description:
AMs, 2 p. ; 20 x 34 cm. Fragment of the 5th act of Faust, comprising almost half of the episode entitled Offene Gegend. Differs slightly from the version printed in the Weimar Ausgabe. Gift from Ottilie von Goethe to Mrs. Anna Jameson, with the latter's endorsement dated Nov. 25, 1833. With: Reproduction "no. 5 of Facsimiles and reproductions of unique or rare items from the William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana in the Yale University Library," 1926.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1900-1919, undated
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 27
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 40
Image Count:
92
Description:
Including Gretchen Lockennadeln, Steiners Paradiesbett, fire extinguishers, drug stores, gas lighting (“Mehr Licht”), the Fränkische Butter-Centrale (Lotte cutting bread and butter), Schreibmachine “Ideal” (“Schreib deinen Pakt mit Seidel & Naumann’s ‘Ideal’”); Göthe-Feder, pen nibs made by Heintzel & Blanckertz (Berlin); and commemorative Meissen porcelain items.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1809 Oct 14
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 10, folder 314
Image Count:
3
Description:
3 p. ; 20 x 33 cm. Personal red seal attached. With notarization by von Wolfskeel, dated Oct. 16, 1809; with impressed seal attached. Conferring full rights upon Goethe's wife to act for him in settling the estate of his deceased mother Katharina Elisabeth Goethe. As assistant in this matter he appoints Friedrich Johann Heinrich Schlosser.