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1.
2 AL (copy, excerpt) : Weimar, to Karl Friedrich Graf von Reinhard

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1828 Jan 27
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 295
Image Count:
3
Description:
1831 Sep 7 3 p. ; 20 x 34 cm. In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand. Both letters printed in full in the Weimar Ausgabe, the first under the date of January 28. This is clearly material for a contemplated edition of Goethe's letters.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > 2 AL (copy, excerpt) : Weimar, to Karl Friedrich Graf von Reinhard

2.
7 ALS, to F. A. Hünich

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1915-24
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 14, folder 565
Image Count:
71
Description:
30 p. 1915 Mar 20, Munich 1919 Feb 19, Munich 1920 Dec 1, Schloss Berg am Irchel 1921 Apr 11, Schloss Berg am Irchel 1921 Dec 4, Chateau de Muzot 1921 Dec 24, Chateau de Muzot 1924 Aug 19, Chateau de Muzet With: Autograph poem (pencil), to F. A. Hünich; n.d.; 1 p.; first line: Ich komme mir leicht verstorben vor. The poem is printed in F. A. Hünich's Rilke-Bibliographie, v. 1, 1935, p. 85. All removed from Speck Collection copy of Rilke, R. M., Aus der Frühzeit Rainer Maria Rilkes, 1921.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > RILKE, RAINER MARIA, 1875-1926 > 7 ALS, to F. A. Hünich

3.
7 LS : Weimar, to Johann Friedrich Unger

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1798-1803
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 300
Image Count:
17
Description:
11 p. ; various sizes Letters dated: Jan. 30, 1798; Aug. 5, 1799; Nov. 4, 1799; Mar. 3, 1800; Apr. 2, 1800; Apr. 10, 1800 and Jun. 8, 1803. All in the handwriting of Goethe's secretary Ludwig Geist. The first six letters concern the publication of Goethe's Neue Schriften, Berlin, J.F. Unger, 1792- 1800, 7 vols. The last is a letter of thanks for Unger's gift of a copy of Chr. E. von Kleists Sämtliche Werke. All printed in Weimar Ausgabe. With: Two letters from Bernhard Suphan to Prof. K. Budde in Bonn, dated May 27, 1888 and July 11, 1888.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > 7 LS : Weimar, to Johann Friedrich Unger

4.
7 LS : Weimar, to Therese Albertine Louise (von Jakob) Robinson

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1824
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 296
Image Count:
18
Description:
Letters dated: Apr. 25 (2 p.); May 11 (2 p.); Jul. 10 (3 p.); Aug. 2 (4 p.); Sep. 8 (2 p.); Dec. 4 (2 p.) and Dec. 15 (1 p.). Letter of Sep. 8 with enclosure: Sep. 2, Weimar "Serbische Gedichte wären nach meiner Ansicht folgendermassen zu ordnen", 4 p., signed. In the handwriting of Goethe's secretary, Johann August Friedrich John. With English translations, typed. All are printed in the Weimar Ausgabe.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > 7 LS : Weimar, to Therese Albertine Louise (von Jakob) Robinson

5.
AL (copy), to Wilhelm von Humboldt

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1831 Dec 1
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 281
Image Count:
3
Description:
4 p. ; 21 x 34 cm. In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > AL (copy), to Wilhelm von Humboldt

6.
AL (copy, fragment), to Christoph Ludwig Friedrich Schultz

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1831 Dec 6
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 298
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 21 x 33 cm. In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > AL (copy, fragment), to Christoph Ludwig Friedrich Schultz

7.
AL (draft, incomplete) : Karlsbad?, to Adam Müller

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1807 Aug 28
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 290
Image Count:
2
Description:
3 p. ; 21 x 34 cm. In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand. Apparently the ms. for the printed letter in Riemer's "Briefe von und an Goethe", p. 169. Not in Weimar Ausgabe.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > AL (draft, incomplete) : Karlsbad?, to Adam Müller

8.
AL (draft, incomplete) : Weimar, to Heinrich Gustav Hotho

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1830 Apr 19
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 280
Image Count:
2
Description:
2 p. ; 21 x 34 cm. In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand. The Weimar Ausgabe prints a longer letter in v. 47, p. 26 from a rough draft in Johann August Friedrich John's hand. This is probably a copy by Riemer in preparation for an edition of Goethe's letters: Briefe von und an Goethe, Leipzig, 1846.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > AL (draft, incomplete) : Weimar, to Heinrich Gustav Hotho

9.
AL (draft, incomplete) : Weimar, to Leopoldine Grustner von Grusdorf

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1827 Mar 30
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 278
Image Count:
3
Description:
4 p. ; 21 x 34 cm. In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand. Published in Weimar Ausgabe, v. 42, p. 107.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > AL (draft, incomplete) : Weimar, to Leopoldine Grustner von Grusdorf

10.
AL : Weimar, to Black Young & Young, booksellers, London

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1829 Nov 19
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 304
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 20 x 33 cm. In English. In Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's hand.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > AL : Weimar, to Black Young & Young, booksellers, London

11.
ALS

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1542-1967
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 266
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 22 x 18 cm. Signed: G. In Goethe's handwriting, with note in upper left hand corner in another hand: "Von Göthen, als er wollte, dass ich den Artikel über die Aufführung des Hamlets[?] unterdrücken sollte." In upper right hand corner: "79" -- i.e. 1779?
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > ALS

12.
ALS (fragment) : Zurich, to J.G. Herder

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1774 Nov 16
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 12, folder 462
Image Count:
6
Description:
2 p. ; 19 cm. The letter is autobiographical and about his work. Engraved portrait of Lavater, by Heinrich Pfenninger, mounted on p.[3] of the double sheet.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > LAVATER, JOHANN CASPAR, 1741-1801 > ALS (fragment) : Zurich, to J.G. Herder

15.
ALS : Carls Bad, to Countess Jaraczewska

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1823 Sep 4
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 282
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 15 x 11 cm. Pencilled on verso: Le Sketz Book de Wasingnton Irving. With this note, Goethe is returning the Sketch Book, which Countess Jaraczewska had lent him.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > ALS : Carls Bad, to Countess Jaraczewska

18.
ALS : Cassel, to J. F. Schwenke

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1852 Apr 29
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 16, folder 662
Image Count:
8
Description:
3 p. ; 22 x 28 cm. Chiefly a detailed description of the conversion of his opera "Faust" into a grand opera for the production at Covent Garden, at the wish of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > SPOHR, LOUIS, 1784-1859 > ALS : Cassel, to J. F. Schwenke

20.
ALS : Cassel, to the music publishers, Breitkopf & Härtel

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1836 Aug 9
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 16, folder 661
Image Count:
4
Description:
2 p. ; 26 x 22 cm., with address. From a Cassel dealer he has received the still remaining copies of the piano score of his Oratorio; he cannot agree to the price set by Breitkopf & Härtel for 2 manuscripts offered them for sale, but he is willing to write a song for their album by the middle of September; requests a corrected proof of his Oratorio.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > SPOHR, LOUIS, 1784-1859 > ALS : Cassel, to the music publishers, Breitkopf & Härtel

21.
ALS : Dresden, to Miss Charlotte Murphy

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1851 Feb 4
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 420
Image Count:
4
Description:
2 p. ; 19 x 23 cm. With personal red seal attached.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > JAMESON, MRS. ANNA BROWNELL (MURPHY), 1794-1860 > ALS : Dresden, to Miss Charlotte Murphy

22.
ALS : Eastbourne, to Bram Stoker

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1886 Jul 6
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 175
Image Count:
5
Description:
2 p. ; 11 x 18 cm. Enclosure: Pen sketch of Henry Irving as Mephistopheles; 11 x 18 cm.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > FITZGERALD, WILLIAM > ALS : Eastbourne, to Bram Stoker

23.
ALS : Emmendingen, to Johann Heinrich Merck

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1784 Apr 10
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 15, folder 611
Image Count:
5
Description:
2 p. ; 19 x 24 cm. Personal red seal attached.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > SCHLOSSER, JOHANN GEORG, 1739-1799 > ALS : Emmendingen, to Johann Heinrich Merck

24.
ALS : Jena, to Johann Wilhelm Archenholz

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1798 Jul 10
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 15, folder 602
Image Count:
3
Description:
3 p. ; 18 x 23 cm. Contains favorable criticism of Archenholz's account of the evacuation of Toulon and suggests to him as the theme for a future treatise the American Revolution. Published in Schiller's Briefe, hrsg. von Fritz Jonas, 1892, v. 4, no. 877.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON, 1759-1805 > ALS : Jena, to Johann Wilhelm Archenholz

26.
ALS : Jena, to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1830 Feb 5
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 191
Image Count:
2
Description:
2 p. ; 22 x 26 cm. Forwarding some sample pages of parallel German and French text of Goethe's Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > FROMMANN, FRIEDRICH JOHANNES, 1797-1886 > ALS : Jena, to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

27.
ALS : Jena, to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1781 Aug 17
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 10, folder 347
Image Count:
4
Description:
2 p. ; 20 x 30 cm. Concerns the possible purchase by Griesbach of duplicates of "autographis Lutheri et coaevorum" from the ducal library. Griesbach, a theology professor at Jena for 36 years, was especially noted for his critical edition of the New Testament.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GRIESBACH, JOHANN JAKOB, 1745-1812 > ALS : Jena, to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?

28.
ALS : Ludwigsburg, to Christian Gottfried Körner

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1793 Sep 15
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 15, folder 603
Image Count:
3
Description:
2 p. ; 12 x 18 cm. Signed: S. Announcing the birth of a son.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON, 1759-1805 > ALS : Ludwigsburg, to Christian Gottfried Körner

29.
ALS : Teplitz, to Ernst Carl Christian John

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1813 Aug 9
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 283
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p. ; 17 x 21 cm. John was Goethe's secretary, 1812-14.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > ALS : Teplitz, to Ernst Carl Christian John

30.
ALS : Traunkirchen, to Mrs. D. B. Murphy

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1835 Aug 17
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 411
Image Count:
7
Description:
4 p. ; 20 x 23 cm. With personal red seal attached. Watercolor sketch on letterhead.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > JAMESON, MRS. ANNA BROWNELL (MURPHY), 1794-1860 > ALS : Traunkirchen, to Mrs. D. B. Murphy

31.
ALS : Vienna, to Mr. Denis Brownell Murphy

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1835 May 7
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 410
Image Count:
7
Description:
4 p. ; 20 x 24 cm. Recounts her relations with the Princess Hohenzollern and the Countess Zichy.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > JAMESON, MRS. ANNA BROWNELL (MURPHY), 1794-1860 > ALS : Vienna, to Mr. Denis Brownell Murphy

32.
ALS : Vienna, to Prof. Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1832 Feb 15
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 13
Image Count:
5
Description:
3 p. ; 21 x 26 cm. Small slip attached, 1 p. ; 6 x 13 cm. Red and black personal seal attached.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > BANFIELD, THOMAS COLLINS > ALS : Vienna, to Prof. Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer

33.
ALS : Weimar, to "Mein liebster Freund" [Leipzig]

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1788 May 2
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 26
Image Count:
5
Description:
2 p. ; 19 x 23 cm. Bode came to Weimar in 1778, where he became a member of the circle of the Grandduchess Anna Amalia. An enthusiastic Mason, he had the pleasure of inducting both Grandduke Karl August and Goethe into the Lodge Anna Amalia. Translator of Goldsmith, Smollett, and Fielding.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > BODE, JOHANN JOACHIM CHRISTOPH, 1730-1793 > ALS : Weimar, to "Mein liebster Freund" [Leipzig]

34.
ALS : Weimar, to "theuerster Herr und Freund"

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1830 Nov 30
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 268
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 15 x 23 cm. In pencil. Not printed in the Weimar Ausgabe.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > ALS : Weimar, to "theuerster Herr und Freund"

35.
ALS : Weimar, to Auguste von Stolberg

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1777 Jul 17
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 299
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p. ; 17 x 21 cm. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe. Includes the four line poem Alles geben Götter die unendlichen ...
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > ALS : Weimar, to Auguste von Stolberg

36.
ALS : Weimar, to Christian Gottlob von Voigt

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1811 May 4
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 301
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p. ; 23 x 20 cm. With autograph statement by Edmund Kräuter on verso, verifying that the letter is in Goethe's hand. Printed in the Weimarer Ausgabe, 4 (22, p. 390). In case, and cardboard cover with printed transcription.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > ALS : Weimar, to Christian Gottlob von Voigt

37.
ALS : Weimar, to Christian Gottlob von Voigt

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1813 Dec 14
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 302
Image Count:
2
Description:
2 p.; 24 x 20 cm. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe and in Goethes Briefe an Christian Gottlob von Voigt, hrsg. von Otto Jahn, Leipzig, 1868.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > ALS : Weimar, to Christian Gottlob von Voigt

38.
ALS : Weimar, to Franz Kirms

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1812 Mar 7
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 284
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 18 x 23 cm. Published in Weimar Ausgabe. Deals with arrangements entered into between Goethe and Iffland in regard to the production of Goethe's revision of Romeo and Juliette.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > ALS : Weimar, to Franz Kirms

39.
ALS : Weimar, to Frau Henriette Caroline Friederike (Jagemann) von Heygendorf

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1825 Oct 19
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 279
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 20 x 24 cm. Printed in the Weimar Ausgabe from the rough draft.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > ALS : Weimar, to Frau Henriette Caroline Friederike (Jagemann) von Heygendorf

40.
ALS : Weimar, to Friedrich Ludwig Schröder

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1791 May 24
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 297
Image Count:
2
Description:
2 p. ; 24 x 21 cm. Concerning the administration of the box office at the Weimar theater and the engagement of an actress. Printed in the Weimar Ausgabe.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > ALS : Weimar, to Friedrich Ludwig Schröder

41.
ALS : Weimar, to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1821 Jun 28
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 12, folder 475
Image Count:
4
Description:
2 p. ; 20 x 24 cm. Official red seal attached. Concerns the offer of a coin collection from the estate of George Batty. On p.[3] a ms. note in Kräuter's hand, dated Weimar, June 29, 1821, signed Goethe, referring the matter to Rath Vulpius.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > LUDECUS, JOHANN WILHELM CARL, 1768-1854 > ALS : Weimar, to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

42.
ALS : Weimar, to Ludwig Friedrich von Froriep

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1824 Nov
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 276
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 12 x 14 cm. Mounted on blue board and framed. Requesting the presence of von Froriep and party at the Weimar Library on November 25. Not printed in Weimar Ausgabe.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > ALS : Weimar, to Ludwig Friedrich von Froriep

43.
ALS : Weimar?, to Karl Ludwig von Knebel

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1809
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 285
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p. ; 12 x 19 cm. Personal red seal attached. Endorsed by H.C. Robinson, London, Dec. 1832.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > ALS : Weimar?, to Karl Ludwig von Knebel

46.
ALS, to Friedrich Justin Bertuch

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
[1789?]
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 269
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p. ; 19 x 20 cm. Deals with the publication of Das römische Carnival. Beginning of 1789? Published in Goethe-Jahrbuch and Weimar Ausgabe.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > ALS, to Friedrich Justin Bertuch

47.
ALS, to Graf Hans Moritz von Brühl?

Creator:
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.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GELLERT, CHRISTIAN FÜRCHTEGOTT, 1715-1769 > ALS, to Graf Hans Moritz von Brühl?

49.
ALS, to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Creator:
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.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > HERDER, FRAU MARIA KAROLINE (FLACHSLAND) VON > ALS, to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

51.
Als an der Elb' ich die Waffen ihm segnete, Jena

Creator:
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.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Lyric Poetry > Als an der Elb' ich die Waffen ihm segnete, Jena

52.
An Carlyle und seine Gattin auf eine zierliche Visitenkarte, Weimar

Creator:
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.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Lyric Poetry > An Carlyle und seine Gattin auf eine zierliche Visitenkarte, Weimar

53.
Autograph entry from lending list of the Weimarer Landesbibliothek, signed, Weimar

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1830 Oct 4
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 305
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p. mounted on cardboard ; 8 x 16 cm. The request is for Buffon, George Louis Leclerc, comte de: Histoire naturelle générale et particulière, Paris 1753, v. 4 [Quadrupèdes]. Cf. Keudell, E.v., Goethe als Benutzer der Weimarer Bibliothek, 1931, item 2158.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Documents > Autograph entry from lending list of the Weimarer Landesbibliothek, signed, Weimar

54.
Autograph note

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1785 Feb 15
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 12, folder 465
Image Count:
5
Description:
2 p. ; 6 x 9 cm., mounted. A note to a printer on the proof of a bordered card; after certain improvements he would like at least a thousand cards.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > LAVATER, JOHANN CASPAR, 1741-1801 > Autograph note

55.
Autograph note, signed

Creator:
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.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Documents > Autograph note, signed

56.
Autograph note, signed G., Weimar

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1831 Oct 24
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 10, folder 307
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p. ; 11 x 13 cm. Heading: No. 2. A request for three books.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Documents > Autograph note, signed G., Weimar

57.
Autograph poem, signed, "Morgenschlaf"

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1897 Mar
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 14, folder 569
Image Count:
5
Description:
1 p. ; 29 cm. Signed: René Maria Rilke. On stationery of "Wegwarten." Printed in: Neue Bremer Sonntagshefte, Nr. 1, 1. April 1897, I. Jahrg.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > RILKE, RAINER MARIA, 1875-1926 > Autograph poem, signed, "Morgenschlaf"

58.
Autograph signature "ergebenst Goethe", Weimar

Creator:
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.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Documents > Autograph signature "ergebenst Goethe", Weimar

59.
Autographa [printed list of names] Mit Bitte um gefällige Beiträge, Weimar

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1811 Dec 20
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 10, folder 309
Image Count:
2
Description:
Signed: J W v Goethe
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Documents > Autographa [printed list of names] Mit Bitte um gefällige Beiträge, Weimar

60.
Avanturen des neuen Telemachs oder Leben und Exsertionen Koerners des Decenten, Consequenten

Creator:
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.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON, 1759-1805 > Avanturen des neuen Telemachs oder Leben und Exsertionen Koerners des Decenten, Consequenten, Piquanten, u.s.f. von Hogarth [i.e. J. C. F. v. Schiller] in schönen illuminierten Kupfern abgefasst und mit befriedigenden Erklarungen versehen von Winkelmann [i.e. Ludwig Ferdinand Hubert], Rome

61.
Chrimehilt

Creator:
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.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > BORROW, GEORGE, 1803-1881 > Chrimehilt

62.
Commonplace-book

Creator:
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.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > JACOBI, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH, 1743-1819 > Commonplace-book

63.
Correspondence (copies, excerpts) of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe with Graf Carl Friedrich Moritz

Creator:
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.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > Correspondence (copies, excerpts) of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe with Graf Carl Friedrich Moritz Paul von Brühl

64.
Den funfzehn englischen Freunden, Weimar

Creator:
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.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Lyric Poetry > Den funfzehn englischen Freunden, Weimar

65.
Der Metaphysiker

Creator:
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.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON, 1759-1805 > Der Metaphysiker

66.
Document, signed : Weimar, to "Dem Stadt Rathe ... Weimar"

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1783 Mar 22
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 10, folder 312
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p. ; 20 x 33 cm. Official impressed seal attached. Goethe, in his capacity as Fürstl. Sächs. Kriegs Commissar, signs a document for the arrest of a deserter, Johann Heinrich Scherf.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Documents > Document, signed : Weimar, to "Dem Stadt Rathe ... Weimar"

67.
Document, signed : Weimar, to "Die Fürstliche Regierung zu Eisenach"

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1782 Sep 24
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 10, folder 311
Image Count:
4
Description:
2 p. ; 20 x 33 cm. Official impressed seal attached. Co-signer: C.F. Schmauss. Concerns remission of certain taxes.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Documents > Document, signed : Weimar, to "Die Fürstliche Regierung zu Eisenach"

68.
Document, signed : Weimar, to "Fürstliche Regierung zu Weimar"

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1780 Oct 12
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 10, folder 310
Image Count:
4
Description:
2 p. ; 33 x 20 cm. Official impressed seal attached. Co-signers: Freiherr von Fritsch and C.F.? Schmauss.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Documents > Document, signed : Weimar, to "Fürstliche Regierung zu Weimar"

69.
Document, signed, Weimar

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1809 Jul 27
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 10, folder 313
Image Count:
5
Description:
5 p. ; 21 x 34 cm. Official impressed seal attached; and with red seal. A contract establishing a pension for the two sons of Carl Ludwig Fernow, who are under the guardianship of Carl Bertuch. Co-signed by G. Voigt, Carl Bertuch, and von Wolfskeel.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Documents > Document, signed, Weimar

70.
Ein Quidam sagt: ich bin von keiner Schule

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1812 Nov 4
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 258
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 10 x 17 cm. Autograph poem, signed G. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe with title: Den Originalen.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Lyric Poetry > Ein Quidam sagt: ich bin von keiner Schule

71.
Entwurf eines P.M. [Pro-Memoria] an einen illustren Senat der Gesamt Universität zu Jena

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 143
Image Count:
20
Description:
AMs, signed, 4 p. ; 19 x 23 cm. Enclosure: ALS : Jena, to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nov. 16, 1801. 3 p. ; 19 x 23 cm. Concerns the making of a general catalogue of the books contained in the Ducal and the Academic libraries in Weimar and Jena.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > ERSCH, JOHANN SAMUEL, 1766-1828 > Entwurf eines P.M. [Pro-Memoria] an einen illustren Senat der Gesamt Universität zu Jena

72.
Faust 2.Th. Vor dem Palaste. Lines 8628-8637

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 223
Image Count:
2
Description:
AMs, 1 p. ; 13 x 21 cm. Ms. note on verso: Handschrift meines Schwiegervaters. Ottilie von Goethe; with 4 red seals showing the Goethe coat-of-arms. Ms. note on slip pasted on verso: ... obtained from Madame de Goethe ... in 1839. J. C. Reynolds of Richmond Va. Another ms. note: This stanza of Faust from the original was given to me by Gov. J. C. Reynolds Jan. 14, 1879. Mary Phelps Montgomery.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Longer Works > Faust 2.Th. Vor dem Palaste. Lines 8628-8637

73.
Fräulein Ulrike von Pogwisch, Weimar

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1824 Oct 29
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 8, folder 253
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 23 x 20 cm. Autograph poem. Unpublished.-Pierre Beres sales list. In honor of the 20th birthday of Ottilie von Goethe's sister, Ulrike von Pogwisch.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Lyric Poetry > Fräulein Ulrike von Pogwisch, Weimar

74.
Klarster Stimme, froh an Sinn

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1831
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 8, folder 255
Image Count:
2
Description:
2 p. ; 34 x 21 cm. Autograph ms., in pencil. Rough draft of his poem entitled Der Demoiselle Schmehling nach Aufführung des Hassischen Sta. Elena al Calvario. Leipzig 1771. The second stanza has title: An Madame Mara zum frohen Jahresfeste. Weimar 1831. Both stanzas were written in 1831. Written on a discarded leaf of a letter to Goethe, one side already had been used by him for jotting down some notes. The text is almost indecipherable. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe, v. 4, p. 298.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Lyric Poetry > Klarster Stimme, froh an Sinn

75.
L (copy) : Leipzig, to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1809 Jan 18
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 15, folder 589
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 21 x 34 cm. In the handwriting of Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer. Note at top of page: "Copia eines Briefes Leipzig d. 18. Jan. 1809" in Goethe's hand. Recommending a young actor, Wessel, for the Weimar theater.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > ROCHLITZ, JOHANN FRIEDRICH, 1769-1842 > L (copy) : Leipzig, to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

76.
LS : Jena, to Johann Christian Gädicke?

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1799 Dec 6
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 277
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p. ; 14 x 19 cm. In Geist's handwriting. With a note from Professor E. Scheidemantel, Weimar, authenticating the note.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > LS : Jena, to Johann Christian Gädicke?

77.
LS : Jena, to Johann Heinrich Meyer

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1819 Aug 16
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 289
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p. ; 20 x 33 cm. Two official red seals attached. In the handwriting of Johann August Friedrich John.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > LS : Jena, to Johann Heinrich Meyer

78.
LS : Schloss Dornburg, to Henriette Ottilie Ulrike Freifrau von Pogwisch, geborene Gräfin Henckel

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1828 Jul 18
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 293
Image Count:
2
Description:
2 p. ; 22 x 13 cm. Letter within mourning border. In Johann August Friedrich John's handwriting. Concerning the return of the book "Geschichte der Neugriechen" and the order of two others for the Weimar Library. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > LS : Schloss Dornburg, to Henriette Ottilie Ulrike Freifrau von Pogwisch, geborene Gräfin Henckel von Donnersmarck

79.
LS : Weimar, to Adolf Oswald Blumenthal

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1819 May 28
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 270
Image Count:
2
Description:
3 p. ; 25 x 21 cm. In handwriting of Rinaldo Vulpius. Suggestions for an edition of German poets who write in Latin, which Blumenthal is planning to compile. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe, Goethe- Jahrbuch II, 1881, and Ungedrucktes aus dem Goethe-Kreise, 1896.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > LS : Weimar, to Adolf Oswald Blumenthal

80.
LS : Weimar, to Christian Ernst Friedrich Weller

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1826 Mar 24
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 303
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p. ; 20 x 33 cm. Handwriting possibly by Heinrich Ernst Weber.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > LS : Weimar, to Christian Ernst Friedrich Weller

81.
LS : Weimar, to Franz Heinrich Müller

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1829 Jan 10
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 291
Image Count:
2
Description:
3 p. ; 21 x 25 cm. Within black border. In Johann August Friedrich John's handwriting.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > LS : Weimar, to Franz Heinrich Müller

82.
LS : Weimar, to Georg Heinrich Noehden, London

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1820 Mar 6
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 292
Image Count:
3
Description:
3 p. ; 25 x 20 cm. In Johann August Friedrich John's handwriting. Concerning Goethe's work on the Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci which Noehden translated into English. Mounted at end of letter a pen and ink drawing representing a medal showing Karl August's head in profile on the obverse and Leonardo da Vinci's and Bossi's on the reverse. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > LS : Weimar, to Georg Heinrich Noehden, London

83.
LS : Weimar, to Gottlob Wilhelm Kühn

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1816 May 30
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 286
Image Count:
2
Description:
3 p. ; 20 x 23 cm. In Kräuter's handwriting. Except for a postscript, the letter is printed in Weimar Ausgabe.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > LS : Weimar, to Gottlob Wilhelm Kühn

84.
LS : Weimar, to Heinrich Luden

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1806 Dec 26
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 287
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 23 c 19 cm. Concerns the translation of Ugo Foscolo's Jacopo Ortis and the novel Sydner ou Les dangers de l'imagination by Mauritian author Barthélemy Huet de Froberville (1761-1835).
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > LS : Weimar, to Heinrich Luden

85.
LS : Weimar, to Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1813 Mar 10
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 273
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p., with address. The leaf containing the address is edged and mended. In the hand of Goethe's secretary Heinrich Ernst Weber. Döbereiner was apothecary and chemist, professor at Jena. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe, Abt. IV, v. 23, p. 194. Gift of Otto and William C. Madlener, 1959.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > LS : Weimar, to Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner

86.
LS : Weimar, to John Wolfgang Döbereiner

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1829 Feb 4
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 274
Image Count:
2
Description:
2 p. ; 20 x 20 cm. In Johann August Friedrich John's handwriting. The date was changed by a later hand from 1824 to 1829. Goethe's letter was printed in Weimar Ausgabe, from an unsigned first draft. Enclosure: 2 notes, apparently rough labels for geological specimens.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > LS : Weimar, to John Wolfgang Döbereiner

87.
LS : Weimar, to Julius J. Elkan

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1829 Aug 19
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 275
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p. ; 13 x 21 cm. Personal red seal attached. In Johann August Friedrich John's handwriting. Published from a draft in Weimar Ausgabe.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > LS : Weimar, to Julius J. Elkan

88.
LS : Weimar, to Karl August Böttiger

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1797 May 17
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 271
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p. ; 19 x 22 cm. Personal impressed seal. In Geist's handwriting. Goethe is sending a number of books for Böttiger's library of numismatics.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > LS : Weimar, to Karl August Böttiger

89.
LS : Weimar, to [Wilhelm Reichel?]

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1829 Feb 14
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 294
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p. ; 12 x 21 cm. Letter within black border. In Johann Christian Schuchardt's handwriting. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe from the draft.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > LS : Weimar, to [Wilhelm Reichel?]

90.
LS : to Wilhelm Reichel

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1828 Feb 15
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 294a
Image Count:
2
Description:
1 p. ; 16 x 20 cm. Letter in secretarial hand. Date on verso, 18 Feb. 1828, possibly in Charles Frederick Johnson's hand.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > LS : to Wilhelm Reichel

91.
LS, Weimar

Creator:
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.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Letters > LS, Weimar

92.
Offene Gegend

Creator:
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.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Longer Works > Offene Gegend

94.
Power of attorney for Christiane von Goethe, Weimar

Creator:
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.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Documents > Power of attorney for Christiane von Goethe, Weimar

95.
Receipt, signed, Weimar

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1791 Sep 30
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 10, folder 315
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 12 x 18 cm. Receipt from Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Bergwerks-Commission. Signed, J.W.v. Goethe, and C.G. Voigt.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Documents > Receipt, signed, Weimar

96.
Receipt, signed, Weimar

Creator:
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1797 Sep 16
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 10, folder 316
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 9 x 16 cm. Receipt from Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Bergwerks-Commission. Signed by J.W.v. Goethe, G. Voigt, J.G. Seeger.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Documents > Receipt, signed, Weimar

97.
Wallensteins Tod

Creator:
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.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON, 1759-1805 > Wallensteins Tod

98.
Wenn der Freund auf lichtem Grunde, Weimar

Creator:
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.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Lyric Poetry > Wenn der Freund auf lichtem Grunde, Weimar

99.
You are the merriest undone man in Europe, Weimar

Creator:
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 ..."
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) > Manuscripts > GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 1749-1832 > Autograph Quotations > You are the merriest undone man in Europe, Weimar

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