STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXLV. Fredrik Axel von Fersen: document sent with some sealed papers to the Tribunal of the Swedish Court; 1787 (dated by the Tribunal, f. 1). Signed. Swedish. Included are two transcripts of the document, one typewritten, together with a German translation. ff. 3....
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXLVI. Gustave Flaubert: short story 'Bibliomanie'; 1836. Fair copy. French. See G. Flaubert, Oeuvres Complètes. Oeuvres de Jeunesse Inédites, vol. 1 (Paris, 1910), pp. 132-147. ff. 14. 310 x 200mm. Gustave Flaubert, novelist: Short story Bibliomanie by Gustave F...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXLVII. Joseph Fouché: letter to his colleagues and friends; 1794. French. ff. 2. 305 x 200mm. Joseph Fouché, Duc d'Otrante: Letter to his colleagues and friends: 1794: Fr.
Autograph annotations by Anatole France. Signed ‘A.F’ at end. Anatole France [pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault]: Letter from M. B. in response to an article on orthography by Anatole France, marked up for printing by France; May 1898
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Begins: ‘Monsieur, Au sujet de votre article de ce matin, ‘l'Orthographe' . . . Ends: ‘Veuillez , je vous prie etc.’ The letter is dated 16 May 1898 but probably in error for 17 May when Anatole France’s first article on orthography and spelling reform was published in the morning daily newspa...
Benjamin Franklin: Letter to William Strahan; Philad[elphia] 12 Feb. 1744/5
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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...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CL. Sigmund Freud: lecture 'Der Dichter und das Phantasieren'; [1907]. Draft. German. See S. Freud, Gesammelte Werke, vol. 7 (1941), pp. 213-223. ff. 5. 400 x 250mm. Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst: Lecture 'Der Dichter und das Phantasieren' by Sigmund Freud: 1907: ...
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...
Carl Friedrich Zelter: [‘Vorstand und Recht’], beginning ‘So lang man nüchtern ist’, four-part song in F for male voices (words Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from West-östliches Divan)
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1814, [1816?]. Autograph score. Written in brown ink on systems of two staves; the staves drawn freehand. On a single leaf. The upper two-thirds of the recto have the text of the poem written out by Goethe, and dated by him ‘26 Jul 1814’. Zelter’s setting, which itself bears no date, begins belo...
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...
