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. CLXXIII. Joachim Murat: letter as King of Naples; after Aug. 1808. French. ff. 2. 247 x 200mm. Joachim Murat of Naples and Sicily: Letter to — from JOACHIM MURAT: aft. Aug. 1808: Fr: Autogr.
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...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXXIX. Paul Claudel: play 'L'Annonce faite à Marie'; 1911 (see f. 145v). Fair copy, with a few revisions. French. See Oeuvres Complètes de Paul Claudel, ed. R. Mallet, vol. 9, 'Théâtre' (Paris, 1955). Author's presentation inscription to Zweig, 1913 (f. 2v). ff. ...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXCI. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi: short story 'Kreitserova sonata' [The Kreutzer Sonata]; [1888]. Draft fragment. Russian. Comprises the end of Chapter 23, Chapter 24 and the beginning of Chapter 25. See L. N. Tolstoi, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, tom 27 (Moscow, 1933),...
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....
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevskii: ChapterII of part 3 of the novel Униженные и оскорбленные [The Insulted and Injured]
Scope & Content:
Autograph draft. Cyrillic script in a small neat cursive hand. One complete chapter of Dostoevskii’s first full-length novel, headed Глава 6 in the manuscript but published as the second chapter in part 3. Begins: Онь именно влетель, с каким-то сияющимь лицомь, Ends: я выскажу все, все! The ...
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. CXC. R. F. A. Sully Prudhomme: poem 'Le vase brisé', included in a letter to ; 1888. French. Fair copy. ff. 2. 180 x 112mm. Poetry FRENCH: René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme, poet: Poem 'Le vase brisé', included in a letter to — from René François Armand Sully-P...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXCII. Lope de Vega: play 'La Corona de Ungria y la Injusta Venganza'; 1633 (see f. 54v). Fair copy, with revisions. Spanish. The licence to perform the play has been added at the end (f. 55). See Obras de Lope de Vega, Real Academia Española, vol. 2 (Madrid, 1916),...