Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von DOCUMENT SIGNED ("JWVGOETHE"), TO CHRISTIAN ERNST FRIEDRICH WELLER, CONCERNING THE JENA OBSERVATORY instructing him to place into the charge of Professor Posselt, as discussed, the Jena observatory, as well the instruments, books, furniture and items contained in the garden house, and to consult Hofmechanikus Körner concerning the instruments, requesting him to give one of the two copies of the agreed inventory to Dr. Posselt, the other to be returned to himself, asking him to confirm Carl Lebrecht Hammer in his duties and to provide Dr. Posselt with a copy of the conditions of the former's employment, and concluding with the request that he prepare an exact report on these matters and that he submit it to [the undersigned], signed in Goethe's capacity as director of the "Großherzogl: S. Ober-Aufsicht über alle unmittelbare Anstalten für Wissenschaft und Kunst" Nachstehender Auftrag zufolge hat H. Dr. Weller dem Herrn Professor Dr. Posselt nach vorhergegangner mündlicher Eröffnung die Sternwarte zu Jena nebst Zubehör folgender Gestalt zu übergeben... 2 pages, 4to, integral address panel, paper seal, crayon numbering to second page ("91."), with a modern typescript transcription, Weimar, 1819, light spotting, small tear
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von DOCUMENT SIGNED ("JWVGOETHE"), TO CHRISTIAN ERNST FRIEDRICH WELLER, CONCERNING THE JENA OBSERVATORY instructing him to place into the charge of Professor Posselt, as discussed, the Jena observatory, as well the instruments, books, furniture and items contained in the garden house, and to consult Hofmechanikus Körner concerning the instruments, requesting him to give one of the two copies of the agreed inventory to Dr. Posselt, the other to be returned to himself, asking him to confirm Carl Lebrecht Hammer in his duties and to provide Dr. Posselt with a copy of the conditions of the former's employment, and concluding with the request that he prepare an exact report on these matters and that he submit it to [the undersigned], signed in Goethe's capacity as director of the "Großherzogl: S. Ober-Aufsicht über alle unmittelbare Anstalten für Wissenschaft und Kunst" Nachstehender Auftrag zufolge hat H. Dr. Weller dem Herrn Professor Dr. Posselt nach vorhergegangner mündlicher Eröffnung die Sternwarte zu Jena nebst Zubehör folgender Gestalt zu übergeben... 2 pages, 4to, integral address panel, paper seal, crayon numbering to second page ("91."), with a modern typescript transcription, Weimar, 1819, light spotting, small tear
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