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:
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.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 15, folder 607
Image Count:
3
Description:
AMs (fragment), 1 p. ; 22 x 20 cm. Note on verso, in Schiller's hand: "Zum 5ten Auftritt des 5ten Akts," but text corresponds to act 2, scene 6, in the edition of Schiller's Theater, Tübingen, 1805-07, Bd. 3, p. 282-283. With a manuscript note in an unknown hand with heading: "Aus Göthes Hand" and signed "Goethe," dated "Weimar, d. 3ten Novbr. 1819," designating this to be Schiller's insertion in his drama, used in the earlier rehearsals by the prompter, until a new copy had been made.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1828 Jan 1
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 259
Image Count:
3
Description:
On pink card ; 8 x 11 cm., within embossed leaf border. Autograph poem, signed. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe with heading: An Frau Carlyle, Weimar, den 27. December 1827[!] A stickpin with medallion portrait of Goethe is affixed; both poems in a leather case with gilt lettering: Greeting to Thomas Carlyle from Goethe 1828. With: Another greeting card with poem: Wenn Phoebus Rosse sich zu schnell. On card ; 13 x 9 cm., within gold leaf border. Autograph poem, signed, with heading: Den lieben treuen Edinburger Gatten zum Neuenjahre 1828. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe with heading: An Frau Clementine von Mandelsloh, with date Weimar, am kürzesten Tage 1827.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1814 Jan 3
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 265
Image Count:
1
Description:
Autograph quotation, signed. Clearly a leaf from an autograph album, with gilt edge. On January 7 of the same year, Goethe applies the quotation to himself in a letter to Von Trebra: "Ich habe keine weitere Ambition, als dass man zu mir sagen möge: You are ..."
