Letters and Papers by German Authors, 1777-1912, 1777-1912.

175 items (approximately)

Items are arranged alphabetically by author's surname.

Letters and other documents from 68 authors, written almost exclusively in German and mostly pertaining to the works of Shakespeare. The items range in date from 1777-1912, although most of them fall within the nineteenth-century. More than three-quarters of the items are letters, many from the Augustin Daly collection. Also included are newspaper clippings, a short biography, an encomium, poetry and translations, a 21 folio typescript called "Nochmals Shakespeares Totenmaske" (along with other materials concerning the Darmstadt Shakespeare death mask), a printed flyer, a visiting card, a library slip, several course announcements, an examination report, and a lecture.

Translations and/or transcriptions of many of the letters are housed with the letters themselves. Portions of this collection have been microfilmed.

G47388

The items listed in this finding aid were acquired at various times in the early twentieth century by Henry Folger.

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