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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
