Call Number:

C1064

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.2 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Citations should be as follows: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Collection, Box #, Folder #, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1753-1771 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749-1832

Form:

Correspondence -- 19th century and Poems--19th century.

Abstract:

Consists of selected correspondence and documents of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the noted German poet and dramatist, author of Faust.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, and natural scientist. Goethe gained early fame with The Sorrows of the Young Werther (1774), but his most famous work is Faust, a poetic drama in two parts.

The collection consists of selected correspondence and documents (original and copies) by Goethe, and miscellaneous pamphlets and other printed material about him and his work. Original Goethe items include a six-line manuscript of a poem, a letter (1821) to his publisher, the last page of a signed, dictated letter (1816) to the German publisher Karl Friedrich Ernst Frommann, a handwritten list (1830), a four-line religious quotation, and an undated note.

Arranged by accession number.