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Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 133
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Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXXIII. Honoré de Balzac: novel Une Ténébreuse Affaire; circa 1841. Printed early proof, with autograph annotations and corrections. French. See Oeuvres Complètes de Honoré de Balzac, ed. M. Bouteron and H. Longnon, vol. 26 (Paris, 1914), pp. 27-275. ff. ii+625. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1841
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 133-135
Title:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vols. CXXXIII- CXXXV. Honoré de Balzac: literary manuscripts and letter; 1823-before 1842. Three volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1823-before 1842
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 137
Title:: (Enoch) Arnold Bennett: Newspaper article in the series 'Books and Persons', including a review of Conflicts by Stefan Zweig, written for the Evening Standard; London, 20 February 1928 (see f. 1)
Scope & Content:: Autograph draft. The review relates to novels by three European writers newly published in English translation. Begins: 'Not long since I saw an advertisement of [deletion] a novel . . .' Ends: ‘It has sparks of the divine fire’ The works discussed are: Thomas Raucat, L'Honorable Partie de ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1928
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 138
Title:: George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron: 'Note to the lines where Capel Lofft is mentioned'
Scope & Content:: Autograph fair copy. The prose note explains the allusion to Capel Lofft in Byron's 'Hints from Horace' (published 1811), lines 693-696: 'Hark to those notes, narcotically soft! / The cobber-laureats sing to Capel Lofft! /Till, lo! that modern Midas, as he hears, / Adds an ell-growth to his egre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1811
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 141
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Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXLI. Charles Darwin: fragment of 'Insectivorous Plants', with some mathematical calculations relating to meridians on the verso; n.d. Draft. Published in 1875. See The Works of Charles Darwin, ed. P. H. Barrett and R. B. Freeman, vol. 24 (1989), p. 307. f. 1. 165...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

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
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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 152-155
Title:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vols. CLII-CLV. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: literary manuscripts, etc.; 1808-circa 1830. Four volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1808-c 1830
Extent:: 4 items

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

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