Object details
Accession number
ARC.008163
Primary Creator
Friedrich Schiller
(Marbach am Neckar, Germany, 1759 - 1805, Weimar, Germany)
Full title
Letter to Georg Joachim Göschen from Weimar
Creation Date
2 April 1789
Object Case
Earlier Authors Case
Language
German
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Theodore F. Dwight (1846-1917), librarian and autograph collector, with Ludwig van Beethoven's Letter for $49 on 26 August 1893.
Marks
Inscribed in pencil (recto, lower right corner): [wh] freydag zeibligeich
Inscribed in pencil (verso, upper left corner): A17
Inscribed in pencil (verso, lower left corner): 120
Display Media
Ink on paper
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Long Gallery
Bibliography
Fritz Jonas (ed.). Schillers Briefe. Vol. 2. (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1892-1896), pp. 271.
Walter Hettche. "A Friedrich Schiller Letter to his Publisher: A Glimpse of the Poet in Business." Fenway Court (1981), pp. 34-37.
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