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.
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. ...
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 publicatio...
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.
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 Goeth...
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: "...
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.
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.
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.
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 will...
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. ...
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 th...
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. Tr...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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 autogr...
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 Sp...
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 9
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 25
Image Count:
2
Description:
Autograph ms., signed. [2] p. 27 x 33 cm. Caption titles. An Mignon: Ueber Thal und Fluss getragen, song for one voice with piano accompaniment. Words of the first stanza with music; second-fourth stanzas at bottom of page. At end: Göthe. Mus. ...
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1785 September
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 9
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 30
Image Count:
2
Description:
Autograph ms., signed and dated at Copenhagen. [2] p. 15 x 21 cm. Song for voice and piano, on a poem first published by Bernhard Suphan in Goethe-Jahrbuch, 1890. Title from first line.
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, ...
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:
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.
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 ...
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:
undated
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 27
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 38
Image Count:
30
Description:
Including packaging for Faust nail polish stones and advertisements for the “Dalli” self-heating flat iron, which feature a humorously updated Gretchen
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:
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,...
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. wi...
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:
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.
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 Wolf...
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. Reynold...
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.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 9
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 26
Image Count:
23
Description:
Manuscript copy of a collection of songs wrongly attributed to Joh. Fried. Reichardt. [23] p. 19 x 34 cm. At bottom of t.-p., in another hand, Joh. Fried. Reichardt; in pencil, Reichardt. A comparison of the handwriting with that of Reichardt's...
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. Wei...
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.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1812 Mar 12
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 20, folder 833
Image Count:
2
Description:
2 p. ; 34 x 21 cm. Letter written by Goethe's secretary Johann August Friedrich John and signed by Goethe, Printed in Weimar Ausgabe, Bd. XXII, Nr. 6273. Acc #: 19991115-e
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.
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-...
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 showin...
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).
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...
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...
