Letter from Emil Hermann, Wernigerode, to an unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1874 October 23.

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Addressed to "Hochgeehrter Herr Director," possibly a publisher. Hermann offers a lengthy defence of the first edition of his study, a reading of A midsummer night's dream as allegory and satire, which had met with much adverse criticism. But Hermann is sure that, unlike his detractors, he has not been guided by preconceived ideas. Also mentions his projected study in textual criticism of Troilus and Cressida.

In German.

Letter removed from Hermann's pamphlet Ein Wort zur weiteren Begründung ... meiner Auffassung des Sommernachtstraums; Braunschweig: J. H. Meyer, 1874 (Folger copy PR2827 H42).

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Germany -- Wernigerode.

Y.c.1632 (1) (map case)

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