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Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 149
Title:: Benjamin Franklin: Letter to William Strahan; Philad[elphia] 12 Feb. 1744/5
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Signed. Begins: ‘Sir I receiv'd your Favour p[er] Mr Chew dayed Sept. 10. and a Copy via Boston.’ Ends: ‘Your obliged humble Servant B Franklin’ Franklin acknowledges receipt from Strahan of 'Mr Middleton's Pieces' and places new orders: a range of pamphlets for friends of differ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1745]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 152
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLII. Fragment of Act 1 of 'Faust, Part 2'; circa 1830. Fair copy. German. The fragment contains lines 5884-5935. See J. W. von Goethe, Gedenkausgabe der Werke, Briefe und Gespräche, ed. E. Beutler, vol. 5 (Zurich, 1950), pp. 328-330. Note of presentation to Franz G...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: c 1830
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 154
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLIV. Ink and wash drawing of the observatory at Seeberg bei Eger; [1808]. See Corpus der Goethezeichnungen, vol. VI B (Leipzig, 1971), p. 119, no. B 86 C. Vb, 207. The inscription 'Goethes Handzeichnung Gustav Schueler Jena' has been added by a former owner. f. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1808]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 155
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLV. Lock of hair of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in envelope with note by Ottilie von Goethe his daughter-in-law
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 163
Title:: John Keats: Fragment of poem 'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill'
Scope & Content:: Autograph first draft. Fifty-seven lines (including deletions) from the 4th leaf of the poem. The whole work consists of 242 lines in rhyming couplets, drafted on ten leaves. Lines 87-106 of the final version are drafted on the recto, and lines 123-150 on the verso of this fragment. The gap be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1816]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 168
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXVIII. John Locke; Latin epitaph on Descartes; n.d. Fair copy. Accompanied by an engraving of Descartes by J. B. Grateloup after F. Hals. ff. 4. 271 x 212mm. overall. Epitaph (f. 4) 94 x 75mm; engraving (f. 2 pasted down) 103 x 72mm. includes: f. 2 Jean Baptis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 172
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXXII. Thomas Moore: poem 'The Last Rose of Summer'; circa 1813. Fair copy. See The Works of Thomas Moore, Esq., (Paris: Galignani, 1820), vol. iv, pp. 121-122. ff. 2. 199 x 165mm. Poetry ENGLISH: Thomas Moore, poet: Poem 'The Last Rose of Summer' by Thomas Moor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1813
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 177
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXXVII. Alexander Pope: poem addressed to the Earl of Oxford; circa 1728. See The Twickenham Edition of the Works of Alexander Pope, vol. VI, 'Minor Poems', ed. N. Ault (1954), p. 294. ff. 3. 201 x 165mm. (f. 3) and 101 x 114mm. (f. 2) pasted down on sheet 367 x ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1728
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 179
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXXIX. Prose narrative 'Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke'; 1899 (see f. 1). Fair copy. German. See R. M. Rilke, Gesammelte Werke, vol. 4 (Leipzig, 1930), 'Schriften in Prosa', pp. 5-34. Zweig's note of gift by the author (f. i). ff. i+27. B...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1899
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 183
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXXXIII. Madame Manon-Jeanne Roland de la Platière: 'Rêveries Philosophiques', 'Pensées Détachées' and 'Lettres à Madame P.'; 18th cent. French. ff. ii+32. Binding of red morocco, gold-tooled by Rivière and Son. 244 x 196mm. Rivière and Son; bookbinders: Bindings...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

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