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 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:
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.
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 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.
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.