William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts

Scope and Contents: 3 p. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Small slip attached, 1 p. ; 6 x
13 cm.
Red and black personal seal attached.

Scope and Contents: 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.

Scope and Contents: 2 p. ; 11 x 18 cm.
Enclosure: Pen sketch of Henry
Irving as Mephistopheles;
11 x 18 cm.

Scope and Contents: 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.

Scope and Contents: 2 p. ; 16 x 20 cm.

Scope and Contents: 2 p. ; 19 x 24 cm.
Personal red seal attached.

Scope and Contents: 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.

Scope and Contents: AMs (fragment), 2 p. ; 21 x 8 cm.
18 lines from the original
manuscript of Phaedra.

Scope and Contents: 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...

Scope and Contents: 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

Scope and Contents: 1 p. ; 27 x 21 cm.
Letter written in an unidentified
hand and signed by Goethe.
Printed in Weimar Ausgabe, Bd. XLVI,
Nr. 205.
Acc #: 19991115-f

Scope and Contents: 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.

Scope and Contents: 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.

Scope and Contents: 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...

Scope and Contents: 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.

Scope and Contents: 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.

Scope and Contents: 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.

Scope and Contents: 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 ...

Scope and Contents: 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...