WIELAND, Christoph Martin (1733-1813). Autograph letter signed ('Wieland') to the publisher and patron Friedrich Justin Bertuch, Weimar, 20 October 1811, 1½ pages, 8vo , integral address leaf, remnant of seal (seal tear).
WIELAND, Christoph Martin (1733-1813). Autograph letter signed ('Wieland') to the publisher and patron Friedrich Justin Bertuch, Weimar, 20 October 1811, 1½ pages, 8vo , integral address leaf, remnant of seal (seal tear). Wieland courteously declines a gift which he regards as excessive, 'Gewiß , liebster Bertuch, rechne ich Ihre und Ihres würdigen Sohnes Liebe zu mir unter das Beste und Köstlichste, was ich besitze: aber verzeihen Sie mir, wenn ich Sie bitte, in den Beweisen, die Sie mir davon geben, einiges Maas zu halten; in Warheit, l. Freunde, ich kann die 6 Flaschen Steinwein, die Sie mir diesen Morgen geschickt haben, unmöglich als Geschenk annehmen'. Wieland had first moved to Weimar in the early 1770s as tutor to the children of Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and he founded the influential literary journal Der teutsche Merkur there in 1773. His residence there, which lasted until his death, was a period of rich literary productivity, particularly in his characteristic poetic romances.
WIELAND, Christoph Martin (1733-1813). Autograph letter signed ('Wieland') to the publisher and patron Friedrich Justin Bertuch, Weimar, 20 October 1811, 1½ pages, 8vo , integral address leaf, remnant of seal (seal tear).
WIELAND, Christoph Martin (1733-1813). Autograph letter signed ('Wieland') to the publisher and patron Friedrich Justin Bertuch, Weimar, 20 October 1811, 1½ pages, 8vo , integral address leaf, remnant of seal (seal tear). Wieland courteously declines a gift which he regards as excessive, 'Gewiß , liebster Bertuch, rechne ich Ihre und Ihres würdigen Sohnes Liebe zu mir unter das Beste und Köstlichste, was ich besitze: aber verzeihen Sie mir, wenn ich Sie bitte, in den Beweisen, die Sie mir davon geben, einiges Maas zu halten; in Warheit, l. Freunde, ich kann die 6 Flaschen Steinwein, die Sie mir diesen Morgen geschickt haben, unmöglich als Geschenk annehmen'. Wieland had first moved to Weimar in the early 1770s as tutor to the children of Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and he founded the influential literary journal Der teutsche Merkur there in 1773. His residence there, which lasted until his death, was a period of rich literary productivity, particularly in his characteristic poetic romances.
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