STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLVII. Hermann Hesse: poems 'Sommer 1933'; 1933. Typewritten, with an autograph title-page (f. 1), autograph titles to the poems and some watercolour illustrations (ff. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14). German. See Hermann Hesse, Gesammelte Dichtungen, vol. 5 (Zurich, 1952),...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLVIII. Adolf Hitler: outline in note form for a speech made in Berlin; [1928]. Draft. German. ff. 13. 330 x 210mm. Adolf Hitler, German Chancellor: Outline for a speech by Adolf Hitler: 1928: Germ: Autogr. draft.
Autographfair copy. Hofmannsthal’s hand shows characteristics of both roman script and Kurrentschrift. Thirty-eight lines of blank verse in iambic pentameters. It describes man and nature awaking at daybreak after a storm, a vision of Christ and his mother, and a guilty young man returning to ...
Henrik Johan Ibsen: Fragment of article 'En Udflugt til Abydos'
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Autograph draft with corrections and additions. The article describes Ibsen’s visit to the ruins of Abydos in Egypt on his way to the ceremony for the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. The manuscript contains notes describing the journey by steamship from Quenneh in Nubia and the activities of...
John Keats: Fragment of poem 'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill'
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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...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXIV. Heinrich von Kleist: three patriotic poems; 1806. Fair copies. German. See Heinrich von Kleist, Sämtliche Werke und Briefe, ed. H. Sembdner, vol. 1 (Munich, 1964), pp. 24-28. ff. 5. 211 x 163mm. 1. ff. 1-3v. 'Germania an ihre Kinder'. 2. ff. 4-4v. 'An K...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXV. Jean de la Fontaine: five poems; 1660. Fair copies. French. See Oeuvres Diverses de la Fontaine, ed. P. Clarac (Paris, 1948), pp. 500, 501, 509. f. 1. 226 x 167mm. 1. f. 1. 'Madrigal Au Roy et a l'Infante'. 2. f. 1. 'Autre Pour le Roy'. 3. f. 1. 'Autre...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXVI. Henri Masers de Latude: part 20 of the Mémoire sent from Vincennes to M. de Sartine, Lieutenant-General of the Police; 1770. French. ff. 24. 159 x 88mm. Notebook with marbled paper covers, inserted in a portfolio of matching paper-covered boards, half bound ...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXVII. Giacomo Leopardi: poem headed 'XXXVIII. Dal greco di Simonide'; early 19th cent. Draft. Italian. See Tutti le Opere di Giacomo Leopardi, ed. Francesco Flora, 'Le Poesie e le Prose', vol. I (Milan, 1945), p. 135. ff. 2. 133 x 97mm. Giacomo Leopardi, poet: ...