Collection Title: William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts (YCGL MSS 6) / Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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.
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 > Lyric Poetry > Als an der Elb' ich die Waffen ihm segnete, Jena

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.
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 > Lyric Poetry > An Carlyle und seine Gattin auf eine zierliche Visitenkarte, 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

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

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

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.
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 G., Weimar

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.
Found in:: 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"

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.
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 signature "ergebenst Goethe", Weimar