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 Wonne der Wehmuth is apparently unpublished.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 Wonne der Wehmuth is apparently unpublished.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.]
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 10, folder 306
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p. ; 13 x 17 cm. Written on verso of a fragment of a larger manuscript which is in a different hand. Endorsing Christian August Vulpius as the author of a proposed book.
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:
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.