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Folger Shakespeare Library, 1992. Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, February 2000. ENG April 2002, June-July 2001, March-April 2000.Coding and textual changes made by Folger Cataloging, Curatorial, and Technical Services staff. Guide to Letters to and from Friedrich August Leo (1820-1898), 1852-1899MS Y.c.1505-1631; Y.c.301 (3) Folger Shakespeare Library Contact Information Curator of Manuscripts Folger Shakespeare Library 201 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-1094 USA Phone: 202/675-0325 Fax: 202/675-0328 Email: manuscripts@folger.edu Website: www.folger.edu Processed by: Werner Habicht and Folger staff Introductory material by: Werner Habicht Date completed: 1992 (revised April-June 2000; original typescript on file) Encoded by: Initial tagging provided by Apex Data Services in 2000; revisions made by Folger staff. URL: http://shakespeare.folger.edu/other/sgml/dfoleo.sgm

Descriptive Summary Leo, Friedrich August, 1820-1898. Letters mostly to him from various people, 1852-1899 Y.c.1505-1631; Y.c.301 (3). Refer to each entry for specific citation. 3 boxes (650 items) Folger Shakespeare Library 650 letters, mostly autograph letters signed (ALS). Leo was editor of the Shakespeare Jahrbuch from 1880-1898; much of the correspondence illuminates the early history of the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft and Shakespeare studies in Germany, England, and the United States. Several concern the theatre. A few include poems. In addition, H.A. Bulthaupt and H.H. Furness mention Edwin Booth [Y.c.1510 (2, 3); Y.c.1530 (13, 16)]; Furness refers to a Shakespeare Calendar for 1881 and 1882 compiled by J.P. Moreau, and to [Marcus] Jastrow [Y.c.1530 (8)]; A.W. von Hofmann enclosed a translation of Lord Dufferin’s Letters from High Latitudes [Y.c.1552 (1)]; H.R. Jodrell(?) of Manchester describes his extensive collection of Shakespeare illustrations in 1866 [Y.c.1560]; C. Lowe invites Leo to meet Henry Irving and Ellen Terry [Y.c.1579]; J.P. Norris refers to Joseph Crosby [Y.c.1591]; W. Oechelhauser mentions Fanny Kemble [Y.c.1592 (19-21)]; E. Sachau writes of Lewis Carroll’s Hunting of the Snark [Y.c.1601 (2, 3)]; A. Tobler issues a certificate on behalf of Max Pfeffer in 1882 [Y.c.1621]; and A.D. White introduces Phillips Brooks and W.T. Hewett, and mentions H. Corson [Y.c.1625]. Also, 22 mostly autograph letters signed (ALS) to Kunstamann from [Georg H.] Pertz and K. Tropus, 1837-1866 [Y.c.1630-31]. Poems listed in the Folger index of first lines. Administrative Information Other Formats

Portions of this collection have been microfilmed. Film Fo. 4357.2 is a copy of Y.c.1529 (1-18) and Film Fo. 4357.3 is a copy of Y.c.1622 (1-25).

Acquisition Information

All but six items in this collection of manuscript letters, postcards and other documents written between 1852 and 1899 were offered to Mr. Henry C. Folger by the antiquarian bookseller Paul Gottschalk of 28 Unter den Linden, Berlin, who in a letter of November 25, 1913, described it as “the complete correspondance [sic] of Professor Leo, who was one of the greatest and best known Shakespeare-scholars of the last decades.” Mr. Gottschalk may have overestimated the scholarly importance of F.A. Leo and also the completeness of the correspondence, but he was doubtless right in observing that among the correspondents “the best names of England, America, Germany etc. are represented,” that the chance to “obtain such a large and important correspondence” was a rare one, and that this “was only possible, because Professor Leo was an autograph collector himself.” Mr. Folger did acquire the whole collection. It was sent to him in several packages, accompanied by slips of paper identifying most of the writers’ names. The last installment arrived in February 1914. Y.c.1571 (3-7) were obtained by Henry Folger from the sale of the private library of the late J. Parker Norris, Esq., of Philadelphia, November 22, 1922. Y.c.1571 (8) was obtained by Henry Folger in 1922 from Maggs Bros. The collection has been known to be in the Folger Shakespeare Library, but has never been catalogued systematically until now.

Arrangement

Items are arranged alphabetically by sender's surname.

Index to Correspondents Aldridge, Ira Frederick Baudissin, Wolf Heinrich Friedrich Karl, Graf von Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen Brandl, Alois Leonhard Brink, Bernhard Aegidius Konrad ten Buchanan, Robert Williams Bulthaupt, Heinrich Alfred Chamberlain, John Henry Clark, William George Clark, Charles Cowden Clark, Mary Cowden- Corson, Hiram Creizenach, Willhelm Michael Anton Daniel, Peter Augustin Delius, Nikolaus Dielitz, [Rudolf?] Dingelstedt, Franz, Freiherr von Döring, Theodor Elze, Karl Engel, Eduard Fischer, Kuno Fleay, Frederick Gard Fleming, William Hansell Flower, Charles Edward Frenzel, Karl Wilhelm Theodor Friesen, Hermann, Freiherr von Furness, Horace Howard Furnivall, Frederick James Gaedertz, Karl Theodor Garnett, Richard Geiger, Ludwig Genée, Rudolph Gildemeister, Otto Gosche, Richard Gottschall, Rudolf von Graef, Gustav Grube, Max Grunert, Karl Hagen, Ernst August Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard Halm, Karl Felix, Ritter von Haupt, Rudolph Friedrich Moriz Hebler, Carl Hertslett, William Lewis Hertzberg, Wilhelm Adolf Boguslaw Hettner, Hermann Julius Theodor Hettstedt, Louise (Beil) Heyd, Wilhelm von Hofmann, August Wilhelm von Hohenhausen, Elise Felicitas Friederike, Freiin von Hopfen, Hans Hubbard, James Mascarene Hülsen, Botho von Ingleby, Clement Mansfield Ingleby, Holcombe Jenkins, Mrs. Jodrell (?), H.R. Karl Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Kluge, Friedrich Köhler, Reinhold Kölbing, Eugen Köstlin, Karl Reinhold von Koppel, Richard Kreyssig, Friedrich Alexander Theodor Lang, Wilhelm L'Arronge, Adolph Lazarus, [Moritz] Leo, Friedrich August Lessmann, Otto Lindau, Paul Lindner, Albert Loening, Richard Loeper, Johann Ludwig Gustav von Loftus, Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loreburn, Robert Threshie Reid, Earl Lowe, Charles Lowndes, Charles MacColl, Norman MacDonald, John C. (?) Malet, Sir Edward Baldwin Maxwell, John Meissner, Alfred Mellin, Gustav Henrik Morgan, James Appleton Neubauer, A[dolf?] Nicholson, Brinsley Nicholson, Edward William Byron Norris, Joseph Parker Oechelhäuser, Wilhelm Pertz, Georg Heinrich Pfeil-Burghausz, Friedrich Ludwig, Graf von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth, Joachim Friedrich, Graf von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth, Markus Friedrich, Graf von Rankabēs, Alexandros Rizos Robert-Tornow, Walter Heinrich Rodenberg, Julius Rubinstein, Anton Rümelin, Gustav Sachau, Eduard Salvini, Tommaso Sarrazin, Gregor Ignatz Savits, Jocza Schlenther, Paul Schlottmann, Louis Schmidt, Alexander Schmidt, Erich Schöll, [Gustav Adolf] Schröer, Arnold Sievers, Eduard Wilhelm Simson, [Martin] Eduard Sigismund von Sophie, consort of Karl Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Staunton, Howard Stopes, Charlotte (Carmichael) Streber, Suphan, Bernhard Ludwig Taylor, Tom Thümmel, Julius Sigismund Timmins, Samuel Tobler, Adolf Tropus, K. Ulrici, Hermann Vincke, Gisbert, Freiherr von Werder, Karl White, Andrew Dickson White, Richard Grant Wislicenus, Paul Wülker, Richard Paul Zupitza, Julius Scope and Content

Nearly all the letters and cards contained in the collection were received by F.A. Leo himself, whose permanent residence was an elegant villa at 31 Matthaeikirchstrasse, Berlin W 10 (a few steps west of what in the more recent past was the Berlin Wall and Checkpoint Charlie; since its redevelopment in the 1980s the area has become a hub of cultural life, dominated by the modern buildings of the National Library, the National Gallery and the Berlin Philharmonic’s concert hall). Only some stray items and two sets of letters (see addendum) are addressed to other persons. Some (draft) letters in Leo’s own hand are also included. The wide range of Leo’s distinguished correspondents reflects one part of the social life for which his home had a reputation among the Berlin upper-middle-class coterie. It also testifies to his international contacts; when in London, for instance, he could rely on his English friends’ recommendations and hospitality. More specifically, it reflects Leo’s literary interests and his passionate involvement in Shakespeare studies. To these the bulk of the letters are related in one way or another, even if only remotely or indirectly. Perhaps it is for this very reason that they have been preserved in their present form; for the collection contains little that is either of a purely personal nature or that pertains to Leo’s numerous activities in connection with various public and philanthropic organizations or to his commitment to local politics.

The most substantial and extensive sets of letters in this collection are indeed of great value as source material, illuminating the early history of the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft, the editorial policy of its Jahrbuch and, indeed, the conditions and trends of late nineteenth-century German Shakespeare scholarship in general. We do not, of course, have Leo’s own words and views. But among those who wrote to him, soliciting his ideas or responding to them, were virtually all the leading representatives of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft; what they discussed were matters of both principle and practical organization, scholarly views as well as problems connected with publication projects and contracts. (See, particularly, the letters from Nikolaus Delius, Karl Elze, Hermann Freiherr von Friesen, Wilhelm Oechelhäuser, Alexander Schmidt, and Hermann Ulrici.) Moreover, part of the correspondence bears testimony to the fact that at least some representatives of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft sought and cultivated contacts with their colleagues in England and America. Leo was one of these; among his most faithful correspondents, indeed friends, were, for instance, H.H. Furness and C.M. Ingleby. He was, along with Delius and Elze, vice-president of Furnivall’s New Shakespeare Society, and he was made an honorary member of the New York Shakespeare Association. Of the particularly large number of letters that cover the period of Leo’s editorship of the Jahrbuch, many reveal the indefatigable (if not always successful) efforts he made to solicit non-specialist and interdisciplinary articles as well as philological ones, and also the exemplary patience with which he must have dealt with his contributors’ anxieties and obstinacies. Some articles were preceded by extended epistolary discussions before finding their way into print. Conversely, Leo himself sought and received advice and encouragement when preparing his own publications; several of the letters from Wilhelm Oechelhäuser, for instance, reflect the very genesis of his extensive collection of Shakespeare sententiae (“Geflügelte Worte...”) in the 1892 volume of the Jahrbuch.

As in any collection of letters there is also a certain amount of material that appears to be of a merely ephemeral nature. But even so it may not be entirely devoid of historical interest. For example, a number of communications are obviously mere notes accompanying photographs which Leo had requested from eminent Shakespeareans (both scholars and actors) in order to compile an album, which he eventually presented to the Birmingham Shakespeare Collection (see letter from MacColl, April 5, 1878). Yet the notes not only provide another instance of the collector’s spirit in Leo, but also reveal some of the vanities which even nineteenth-century Shakespeareans possessed. And in any case they increase the autograph value of the collection.

Biographical Note

Friedrich August Leo (December 6, 1820 - June 30, 1898) was born in Warsaw and, after the early death of his father, was brought up in Berlin. He learned and practised the bookseller’s trade until, at the age of 26, he began studying at the Faculty of Philosophy of Leipzig University, from which he eventually obtained his doctorate. During that period he depended financially on what he could earn as a teacher, writer and translator (mainly of Danish texts). In 1854, however, his marriage to Elisabeth Friedländer, daughter of a wealthy banker and a distant relative of Heinrich Heine, gave him the support that permitted him to devote himself entirely to freelance writing and scholarship and to make his home a center of social life reminiscent of 18th-century intellectual salons. He never held a university post, though for a brief period (1873-1875) he did lecture on Shakespeare at Herrig’s academy of modern languages. The title “Professor” which came to be attached to his name is an honorific one, conferred upon him by the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar in recognition of his services to the Shakespeare Gesellschaft. Several distinguished professors of the University of Berlin, however, were among his friends - and among the writers of the letters - as were artists, musicians, men of the theatre such as Adolph L'Arronge (the director of the Deutsches Theater) and the actors Max Grube and Carl Grunert, politicians, high-ranking librarians, etc. After being afflicted by the death first of his only daughter (married to Joachim Graf von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth) in 1891 and then, in 1893, of his wife, he withdrew from most of his public activities, though his commitment to Shakespeare lasted his whole life long. “Poor man,” confided H.H. Furness to his sister, who had visited Leo in Berlin in early 1898, only a few months before he died, “his life has been, I fear, a good deal of a tragedy. His only daughter and child married a German brute, a sprig of nobility, who drove her to an early grave, and her poor mother died within two years, of a broken heart” (The Letters of Howard Horace Furness [Boston, 1922], II.9). Those who knew him closely were impressed by his fascinating personality, his wide knowledge, his brilliant wit and his warm-hearted altruism. One of the main preoccupations of his last years was the use of his considerable fortune for beneficent purposes.

F.A. Leo’s own writings, many of which are repeatedly referred to in the letters of this collection - if only in acknowledgement of the receipt of presentation copies or offprints - include poems, a volume of which was published in 1870 and republished in 1872 and 1886, occasional verse, plays (his comedy Ein Hochverräter, published under the pseudonym August Olfer in 1875, had a moderate stage success), prose fiction for children, etc., besides the Shakespeareana listed more fully below. Suffice it here to note that he produced an English edition of Coriolanus (1864), which unhappily incorporates Collier’s “early manuscript corrections” which Leo had previously defended against Nikolaus Delius; a German stage adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra (1870), which was accepted for performance by the court theatres of Berlin and Weimar (cf. letters from Botho von Hülsen, Jan. 6, 1870 and Grand Duke Karl Alexander, Nov. 15, 1869); and a new translation of Macbeth for Hermann Ulrici’s German edition of the complete plays (1871). He edited the sections of North’s Plutarch relevant to Shakespeare’s Roman plays (1878). He compiled, and distributed privately, an Index to Sidney Walker’s A Critical Examination of the Text of Shakespeare. His collected essays on textual cruxes were published in English as Shakespeare Notes (1885). Some twenty-five Shakespearean articles, as well as numerous notes, reviews, reports and obituaries were printed in the Shakespeare Jahrbuch, to which he contributed from its very first volume (1865) and which he edited from 1880 to 1898, striving (as many of the letters attest) to give it a greater breadth of interest and thematic scope than had been achieved by the previous editor, Karl Elze.

The Shakespeare Jahrbuch was of course published as the official organ of the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft, which was founded in Weimar in 1864 with the aim of promoting knowledge of Shakespeare in Germany. It was conceived not as an organization of academic specialists but as a public forum for everyone concerned with and interested in Shakespeare and his works - academics of various disciplines, theatre practitioners, translators, journalists, schoolteachers, politicians, as well as the cultured “general public.” Characteristically, the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft was officially inaugurated by a member of the ruling aristocracy, the Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar, while its effective founder was an industrialist (Wilhelm Oechelhäuser), its first president a professor of philosophy (Hermann Ulrici) and one of the vice-presidents a theatre director (Franz Dingelstedt). The Shakespeare Gesellschaft has essentially retained its identity as an open public institution to the present day, even though no one now would describe it as a kind of national temple for the cult of the Bard and his appropriation in Germany, as some of those responsible for its inception were inclined to do. Indeed Leo himself, who was a founding member and sat on the presidium to the end of his life, seems to have been more reluctant than others to let the growing German nationalism of the time affect the image of Shakespeare. Perhaps his Jewish background had something to do with this. During his editorship of the Jahrbuch the jingoistic stance to be found in the earliest volumes subsided noticeably.

Note: For Leo’s life see Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, vol. 51 (Leipzig, 1906), 646-653; Albert Cohn’s obituary in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 35 (1899), 281-294; Antje Eichhorn-Eugen, in Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft West, Jahrbuch 1991, 284-291.

Acknowledgements

This list could not have come into existence without the encouragement, expertise and constant help of Laetitia Yeandle, the Folger Library’s curator of manuscripts. Her commitment has been inspiring, her advice has proved indispensable and her competence has prevented many an error. Thanks are also due to the Folger Shakespeare Library itself for a fellowship, which, in October 1991, permitted a month’s concentrated work. Sibylle Wetzker and Helen Fineron (University of Würzburg) have helped to process the results into presentable shape.

W. H.

List of Letters Y.c.1505 (1) ALDRIDGE, Ira Frederick, 1804-1867

Native of Senegal; first black actor.

(1) May 20, 1853. Dresden.

English.

Extract from a poem. First line: “If to my native shores I do return.” Listed in the Folger index of first lines. Page 3 of an unidentified collection. [cs 613]

Y.c.1506 (1-2) BAUDISSIN, Wolf Heinrich Friedrich Karl, Graf von, 1789-1878

Writer and translator; contributed to the ‘Schlegel-Tieck’ Shakespeare translation.

(1 a-b) June 17, 1877. Letter from Wachwitz (nr. Dresden).

German.

Apologies for not being able to send a photograph of himself, offering instead a 38 year old miniature made “nearer the time when [he was engaged in] Tieck’s continuation of Schlegel’s Shakespeare translation.”

(2) June 30, 1877. Letter from Wachwitz (nr. Dresden).

German.

Takes up Leo’s suggestion to have a new photograph taken. [cs 613]

Y.c.1507 (1) BRANDES, Georg Morris Cohen, 1842-1927

Danish scholar.

(1) May 9, 1882. Letter.

German.

Regrets that he will be unable to deal with Shakespeare in the next few years, considering the nature of his present literary work. [cs 613]

Y.c.1508 (1-16) BRANDL, Alois Leonhard, 1855-1940

Professor of English in Berlin.

(1) April 20, 1885. Letter from Prague.

German.

Thanks Leo for offprints from Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(2) February 10, 1892. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Note of apology.

(3) May 7, 1894. Postcard from Strasbourg.

German.

Personal subscription to Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(4) May 10, 1894. Strasbourg.

German.

Application for membership in Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft.

(5) December 11, 1895. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Accepts invitation to party at Leo’s home.

(6) December 17, 1895. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Apologises for not being able to come.

(7) January 15, 1896. Letter from [Berlin].

German.

Accepts renewed invitation for 22 January, 5 o'clock.

(8) April 21, 1896. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Announces his arrival in Weimar [for Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting?]. Expresses thanks for a donation to his [Berlin] University department.

(9) June 2, 1896. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Arranging a wine-tasting session.

(10) June 22, 1896. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Apologies.

(11) November 7, 1896. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Note of thanks.

(12) April 4, 1897. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

(13) April 7, 1897. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Refers to a “second chapter” [of some book] as being a new account of Shakespearean stage architecture. Wishes Leo good health, but gratefully acknowledges Leo’s intention to leave his books to the English Department at Berlin University.

(14) July 5, 1897. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Offers to edit the pre-Shakespearean play The Longer Thou Livest the More Fool Thou Art (for Shakespeare Jahrbuch) [Brandl’s edition of the play was published in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 36 (1900)]. The play contains many songs of the time, “and has something Falstaffian” about it.

(15) October 3, 1897. Postcard from Deidesheim.

German.

Announces arrival in Weimar.

(16) November 7, 1897. Letter from Berlin.

German.

On excessive length of an article for Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Brandl will talk to Leo as soon as his lecture for the Schulverein (presided over by Ludwig Fulda) is over. [cs 613]

Additional note:

Brandl described his acquaintance with Leo in his memoirs; see Alois Brandl, Zwischen Inn und Themse (Berlin, 1936), pp. 285 ff.

Y.c.1509 (1-2) BRINK, Bernhard Aegidius Konrad ten, 1841-1892

Professor of English in Strasbourg.

(1) March 16, 1880. Letter from Strasbourg.

German.

Reluctant response to solicitation of article for Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(2) May 23, 1882. Letter from Strasbourg.

German.

Reluctant response to solicitation of article for Shakespeare Jahrbuch. See also correspondence with Kluge and with Oechelhäuser. [cs 613]

Y.c.301 (3) BUCHANAN, Robert Williams, 1841-1901 [1882?], Friday. Letter (black-bordered) to N. Trübner from London.

English.

Wishes to see him. Glad to be of any service he can in view of all the changes on the Contemporary Review. [cs 613]

Y.c.1510 (1-16) BULTHAUPT, Heinrich Alfred, 1849-1905

Librarian in Bremen, author, critic.

(1) June 4, 1883. Letter from Bremen.

German.

Is honoured to be asked to contribute to Shakespeare Jahrbuch. In his book [probably Dramaturgie des Schauspiels, vol. II: Shakespeare (Oldenburg, 1882)] he has considered Shakespeare from the point of view of the modern theatre. But he has much other work in hand.

(2) July 1, 1883. Letter from Bremen.

German.

Suggests various possibilities for contributions to Shakespeare Jahrbuch: his stage adaptation of Cymbeline based on Hertzberg’s translation; an essay on Edwin Booth’s guest performances (Hamlet, King Lear, Othello). Also refers to his book (Dramaturgie des Schauspiels).

(3) July 29, 1883. Postcard from Bremen.

German.

Confirms that he will contribute, either on Cymbeline or on Booth. [He did write on “Eine neue Bühnenbearbeitung des Cymbeline” for Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 19 (1884), pp. 155-175.]

(4) September 23, 1883. Postcard from Bremen.

German.

Promises manuscript by December 15.

(5) October 6, 1883. Letter from Bremen.

German.

Apologizes for not having visited Leo while in Berlin.

(6) November 14, 1883. Letter from Bremen.

German.

Asks for extension of deadline.

(7) December 15, 1883. Postcard from Bremen.

German.

In connection with his article on Cymbeline, he wonders if something on Vincke’s or Wolzogen’s adaptations of the play has been published in Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(8) February 19, 1885. Letter from Bremen.

German.

Enquires about copyright of Hertzberg’s translation of Cymbeline.

(9) February 21, 1885. Postcard from Bremen.

German.

Thanks for information.

(10) June 22, 1885. Letter from Bremen.

German.

Apology for not being able to write for Shakespeare Jahrbuch at this point.

(11) April 15, 1886. Postcard from Bremen.

German.

Thanks for Leo’s scrutiny of Cymbeline. Will reciprocate by sending his latest play Eine neue Welt.

(12) January 7, 1888. Letter from Bremen.

German.

Sending manuscript for Shakespeare Jahrbuch. [“Shakespeare und die Virtuosen,” published in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 24 (1889), pp. 89-107 (on Edwin Booth)].

(13) November 13, 1890. Visiting card from Berlin.

German.

The performance of his play (Eine neue Welt) has been postponed.

(14) May 3, 1893. Letter from Bremen.

German.

Is sending manuscript of his lecture [on “Shakespeare und der Naturalismus”; later printed as a pamphlet].

(15) May 9, 1893. Postcard from Bremen.

German.

Asking for proofs. Instructions for title.

(16) May 27, 1893. Postcard from Bremen.

German.

Thanks Leo for noting two mistakes overlooked by Bulthaupt. [cs 613]

Y.c.1511 (1) CHAMBERLAIN, John Henry, 1831-1883

Architect, Birmingham; Member of Parliament; a founder of the Shakespeare Memorial Library, Birmingham.

(1) February 28, 1879. Letter from Birmingham.

English.

Thanks for help in obtaining signatures for the Shakespeare Circular. On the difference between the Shakespeare Library and the general library. [cs 613]

Y.c.1512 (1) CLARK, William George, 1821-1878

Trinity College, Cambridge; Shakespeare editor.

(1) May 25, 1863. Letter from Cambridge.

English.

Sends thanks for copy of Leo’s Index to Sidney Walker’s A critical examination of the text of Shakespeare. Discusses emendations in Measure for Measure etc. [cs 613]

Y.c.1513 (1) CLARKE, Charles Cowden and 1787-1877 CLARKE, Mary Cowden-, 1809-1898 (1) March 22, 1869. Letter from Genoa.

English.

Official thanks for complimentary copy of Index to Sidney Walker’s A critical examination of the text of Shakespeare. No. 64 in some series. [cs 613]

Y.c.1514 (1-3) CLARKE, Mary Cowden-, 1809-1898 (1) March 6, 1879. Letter from Genoa.

English.

Covering letter with prospectus of latest work on Shakespeare by her late husband and herself.

(2 a-b) March 18, 1879. Letter and enclosure from Genoa.

English.

Thanks Leo for kind words and for subscribing to the work on Shakespeare. In accordance with Leo’s request, Clarke encloses photographs. Also adds an original MS. page from her concordance, which accompanies the letter.

(3) December 15, 1879. Letter from Genoa.

English.

Will send a copy of her Shakespeare Key. [cs 613]

Y.c.1515 (1-3) CORSON, Hiram, 1828-1911

American Shakespeare scholar.

(1) November 27, 1889. Letter from Florence.

English.

Refers to letter of introduction to Leo from Andrew D. White. Has instructed his publishers to send a copy of his (Corson’s) Introduction to the Study of Shakespeare.

(2) December 24, 1889. Letter from Florence.

English.

Suggests meeting in Italy. Sends his photograph, at Leo’s request.

(3) June 10, 1890. Letter from London.

English.

Regrets not having met Leo in Italy. Reports on visit to Mary Cowden Clarke, now 81 years old. Draws attention to Furness’ Variorum Edition of As You Like It; mentions the loss of a law suit by Cornell University over 2 million dollars bequeathed to it for the exclusive purpose of buying books. [cs 613]

Y.c.1516 (1) CREIZENACH, Wilhelm Michael Anton 1851-1919

Professor of German literature in Cracow.

(1) April 22, 1887. Letter from Cracow, Austria [now Poland]

German.

Is sending a study of his for review in the Shakespeare Jahrbuch and suggests as possible reviewers either Leo himself, Zupitza, R. Köhler, Elze, [?], or Delius. [cs 613]

Y.c.1517 (1-2) DANIEL, Peter Augustin

Editor of Shakespeare.

(1) June 21, 1877. Letter from London.

English.

Sends thanks for copy of Leo’s Shakespeare’s Frauen-Ideale [Shakespeare lecture (published Halle, 1868)]. But he cannot read much German. Considers knowledge of German essential for the study of Shakespeare.

(2) July 2, 1880. Letter from London.

English.

Discusses a probable missing line in Hamlet (Horatio’s speech), which must have involved the word “element.” Since Julius Caesar I.iii. 61-63 and 128-30 reflect Shakespeare’s debt to Plutarch, maybe the missing line did too, as Leo’s proposed line would seem to suggest. [cs 613]

Y.c.1518 (1-65) DELIUS, Nikolaus, 1813-1888

Professor of English in Bonn.

(1) March 13, 1865. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Sends “Addition” to his Shakespeare edition, already written before Christmas, drawing particular attention to the section on Coriolanus [Delius’s second edn. of Shakespeares Werke was published in 1864 (first edn. Elberfeld, 1854)]. Points out that he wrote it after he had made Leo’s personal acquaintance, which he remembers with particular pleasure, as Leo will see from the absence of a polemical tone [alluding to the fact that Leo had published a critique of Delius’ treatment of the text of Coriolanus (F.A. Leo, Shakespeares Coriolanus: Die Deliussche Ausgabe dieser Tragödie kritisch beleuchtet [1861])]. Thanks Leo for a book present. Is looking forward to seeing Leo again in Weimar [at Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting].

(2a-e) November 8, 1865. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Returns Act I of the manuscript of Leo’s translation of Macbeth with his comments. Points out that the latter represent only his personal opinion, for what it is worth. Praises Leo’s sensibility for Shakespeare’s form both in general and in detail. Hopes that Leo will send him Act II soon. Asks Leo to accept a copy of one of his recent publications and expresses thanks for the publications by Leo he has received. Appended is a lengthy list of comments on specific passages of the Macbeth translation (checked by Leo’s hand).

(3) November 20, 1865. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Returns Act II of the Macbeth translation and pays Leo compliments on his progress. Suggests that Leo send Acts III to V together; will be happy to read these, too. Appended is Delius’ list of comments on Act II, checked by Leo (as above).

(4) March 19, 1866. Letter from Bremen.

German.

Has examined Acts III to V of Leo’s Macbeth translation with undiminished interest. Repeats his compliments on Leo’s sensitivity to the tone of the play. Now that Leo has finished the translation of Macbeth he ought to deal with Coriolanus, “the most difficult” of Shakespeare’s plays. Leo is of course qualified to do so by his [Leo’s] own English edition of Coriolanus [London, 1864]. Will send a list of comments [not extant]. NOTE: Leo’s translation of Macbeth was printed in H. Ulrici’s edition of Shakespeares dramatische Werke, vol. 12 (Berlin, 1871).

(5) November 5, 1869. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Thanks Leo for sending a volume of his poems and other writings. Discusses the question of Shakespearean stage adaptations.

(6) June 10, 1874. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Sends Leo presentation copies of his “opuscula.” Was unable to attend the Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting in Weimar, because he was in Rome at the time. Suggests a more convenient date for the future.

(7) June 9, 1875. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Thanks Leo for books etc. Compliments him on his efficient services on behalf of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft, which have surpassed all expectations.

(8) June 15, 1875. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Thinks Leo would be well qualified to be the successor of Solly as lector or Professor Extraordinarius [i.e., Thomas Solly, lector of English and titular professor at the University of Berlin from 1843 to 1875]. Proposes writing a confidential letter of recommendation to Tobler, Delius’s former pupil [Adolf Tobler was professor of Romance Languages at the University of Berlin from 1867. Cf. his letters to Leo below]. But does Leo really want the position? Its duties are likely to be “purely empirical” instruction of students in the English language, something like what Professor Bischoff does in Bonn for 1000 Thaler a year [Wilhelm Bischoff, Professor Extraordinarius for English and French at the University of Bonn from 1872 to 1888].

(9) April 30, 1876. Letter from Bonn.

German.

The Weimar meeting [of the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft] has been postponed for two weeks. Delius hopes that this will enable Leo to be present; on the evening before the presidium meeting he would wish to confer with Leo confidentially on some points raised in Leo’s letter from Florence [apparently concerning some dissatisfaction with one of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft’s (vice-) presidents]. In substance, Delius agrees with Leo entirely, but he advises a more cautious procedure. The office of vice-president might be filled by Elze - but who would then edit the Jahrbuch? Delius himself could not do it, given his admitted lack of skill in practical matters and also his duties at Bonn university.

(10) October 31, 1877. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Identifies his copy of North’s Plutarch as being the edition of 1676. Leo may borrow it if he so wishes, though the book is heavy and damaged. Is sorry Leo could not attend the last meeting in Weimar. Is enclosing “a fruit of his recent stay in Switzerland.”

(11) November 17, 1877. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Discusses Leo’s projected edition of excerpts from North’s Plutarch. Advises Leo to avoid complete listings of textual variants and to concentrate instead on the question of which edition of [North’s] Plutarch was accessible to Shakespeare and what use of it he made in his plays. With a view to the next Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting, Delius declares firmly that, like Leo, he does not wish to become president of that society. In times as difficult as the present ones an active and practical president is needed, not just a big name. [See the discussion of the same matter in a letter from H. Freiherr von Friesen of July 4, 1877].

(12) March 13, 1878. Letter from Bonn.

German.

As Delius is leaving for Rome, he can answer but briefly a query concerning Leo’s Plutarch project. Leo should save himself the trouble of collating the 1612 edition [of North’s Plutarch], since Shakespeare could not have used it. But Delius is impressed by the textual work Leo is doing; will be interested in seeing the result. Wonders how Leo’s proposal concerning the presidency of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft will be received. Does not like the idea of its electing a president for a one-year term only. Will make sure to attend the Weimar meeting, even if this means he has to abandon plans to visit Venice and Vienna on his return journey from Rome.

(13) July 17, 1878. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Sends thanks for special presentation copy of Leo’s Four Chapters of North’s Plutarch. Praises the beauty of the book. Will mention it in the forthcoming collection of his own essays, of which he is just reading the proofs [Nicolaus Delius, Abhandlungen über Shakspere (Elberfeld, 1878). In his introduction, p. xxv, Delius did draw attention to Leo’s Four Chapters.]

(14) December 3, 1878. Postcard from Bonn.

German.

Whether Portia’s original in real life really obtained her doctorate in law in Bologna he does not know. It is possible. Could Leo enquire in Bologna?

(15) February 18, 1879. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Will fulfill wishes expressed by [Samuel] Timmins and wonders if Timmins has received his letter in which he had explained what the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft intends to do for the [Birmingham] Memorial Library, which had been damaged by a fire. Delius’s publisher in Elberfeld has already made contributions. Wonders which books have been saved from the fire.

(16) May 16, 1879. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Can understand Leo’s surprise [about an unidentified matter] and explains a decision he has made. For Shakespeare Jahrbuch Delius is writing something on The Winter’s Tale and its sources. Another article will deal with the authorship of Henry VI, parts 2 and 3. [Delius’s two articles mentioned here, along with a third one (see letter of Dec. 4, 1879), are in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 15 (1880): “Greene’s Pandosto and Shakespeares Winter’s Tale,” pp. 22-43; “Zur Kritik der Doppeltexte des Shakespeareschen King Henry VI (Part II-III),” pp. 211-221].

(17) May 28, 1879. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Will review, for Shakespeare Jahrbuch, the latest publications of the New Shakespeare Society. But he does not wish to do any other reviews, especially since Elze is more conscientious in dealing with recent publications.

(18) November 8, 1879. Postcard from Bonn.

German.

Has no objections to Leo’s including in the Shakespeare Jahrbuch four pages of Portugese. Every volume tends to contain more than four pages which even fewer people take an interest in.

(19) November 13, 1879. Postcard from Bonn.

German.

Recommends Francis Douce, Illustrations of Shakespeare, as the best book [for an unspecified purpose].

(20) November 19, 1879. Postcard from Bonn.

German.

Concerning galley proofs of Shakespeare Jahrbuch article.

(21) November 24, 1879. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Note accompanying a letter from Metzger & Wittig, Leipzig, Nov. 22, 1879, concerning offprints from the Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Delius is surprised at the increased cost. Also reports that he has written to England for the New Shakespeare Society’s bulletins, which he would like to review.

(22) December 4, 1879. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Is sending a manuscript, hoping that there is still room for it in the next Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(23) December 27, 1879. Letter from Bremen.

German.

Sends yet another - third - manuscript for the next Shakespeare Jahrbuch and requests proofs speedily, as he is leaving for Rome. [Probably his review of the New Shakspere Society publications, printed in Shakespeare Jahrbuch 15 (1880), pp. 298-300].

(24) January 3, 1880. Letter from Bremen.

German.

The Jahrbuch need not be overly concerned with Kreyssig after he has passed away. A simple notice of his death would suffice [the brief notice is in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 15 (1880), p. 432]. As for Elze’s legacy, Delius advises Leo to reserve 19 of 38 pages for 1881 [apparently referring to several manuscripts by Elze not yet printed when Leo took over the editorship of Shakespeare Jahrbuch from Elze]. Is not enclosing Elze’s letter to which Loën had responded, assuming that Leo as well as Loën would agree with Elze’s motives. Asks Leo to inform Oechelhäuser accordingly.

(25) January 8, 1880. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Has returned proofs. Suggests sounding out presidium members about postponing the meeting until after Whitsun. Refers to Leo’s proposal that Albert Cohn’s bibliography should be acquired; something will be done about it in due course. In a few days Delius will travel to Rome, where his address will be c/o Instituto [sic]Archeologico Germanico.

(26a-b) April 1, 1880. Letter from Rome to Elisabeth Leo.

German.

(27) N.d. [1880 or 1881]. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Is sorry to have missed Leo’s visit. Hopes to send promised article on Romeo and Juliet and its sources for Shakespeare Jahrbuch [printed as N. Delius, “Brooke’s episches und Shakespeare’s dramatisches Gedicht von Romeo and Juliet,” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 16 (1881), pp. 213-227]. Asks for offprints of his Weimar lecture [Delius had delivered the main lecture at the Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting in Weimar on May 17, 1880. It was published as “Über den Monolog in Shakespeare’s Dramen” in Shakespeare Jahrbuch 16 (1881), pp. 1-21. NOTE: Delius only writes “Bonn, Saturday morning” at the end. On the basis of the titles referred to above the date must be late 1880 or early 1881.

(28) February 24, 1881. Letter from Bonn.

German.

The Weimar meeting will be in the week after Whitsun instead of in April. Will leave for Rome on March 9 and stay until May. Asks Leo not to send any registered mail, to avoid trouble with the Italian post office.

(29) March 5, 1881. Postcard from Bonn.

German.

Asks Leo to answer for him a query by “F.”

(30) June [?] 4, 1881. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Promises contribution to Shakespeare Jahrbuch on Julius Caesar in relation to Plutarch, but will not be able to write it before September or October, because he will be travelling before then [printed as “Shakespeares Julius Caesar und seine Quellen im Plutarch” in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 17 (1882), pp. 67-81]. His mail to Bonn, however, will be forwarded. Also discusses the length of articles in Shakespeare Jahrbuch and suggests that setting a limit to the number of pages would be a useful policy.

(31) June [?] 13, 1881. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Passes on to Leo a letter [unidentified] he has just received, apparently containing Shakespeare Gesellschaft business, to which Delius refers.

(32) December 19, 1881. Postcard from Bonn.

German.

Notifies Leo that he will be in Rome from December 22 to January 10, in case proof corrections are due then.

(33) January 12, 1882. Postcard from Bonn.

German.

New Year’s wishes. Asks when galley proofs can be expected.

(34) February 6, 1882. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Acknowledges receipt of galley proofs, which he will return to the printer’s to-morrow. Orders twelve offprints. Asks Leo to use his influence with Zupitza to lend weight to von Loën’s effort [to persuade Zupitza to give a lecture?]. [see the next letter]

(35) February 12, 1882. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Zupitza has agreed to give an introductory lecture [at the Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting]. Von Loën has, on behalf of the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft, expressed condolences to Mrs. von Friesen. In this particular case a more elaborate obituary might well be in place. This, however, does not apply to the obituary of Hertzberg. Complains about Gosche’s performance as a speaker at the Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting. Delius has not yet received the publications of the New Shakespeare Society. He will spend Easter in Rome. [The lecture was eventually printed as Julius Zupitza, “Shakespeare über Bildung, Schulen, Schüler und Schulmeister,” Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 18 (1883), pp. 1-31.]

(36) March 8, 1882. Postcard from Bonn.

German.

Has another manuscript for the Jahrbuch. Would Leo ask Zupitza to send his topic not to him but to von Loën in Weimar.

(37) May 7, 1882. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Has returned from Rome. Asks about the current state of the Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Discusses a proposal by von Loën. Has had a visit from von Loën, with whom he has discussed Shakespeare Gesellschaft business.

(38) May 11, 1882. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Discusses form and contents of a sample volume of Shakespeare Jahrbuch (paper, individual articles, payment of honoraria, etc.). Also, further Shakespeare Gesellschaft business (e.g., date of convention). The executive committee at Weimar ought to be reliable, especially when the president’s residence is in Bonn. Promises an article on Shakespeare’s sonnets but will not participate in hyothesis-hunting.

(39) June 27, 1882. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Declares that he is against accepting articles in English for Shakespeare Jahrbuch, especially when they are as drab and as badly written as those submitted by Fleay.

(40) May 22, 1883. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Discusses future prospects of the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft and its Jahrbuch.

(41) May 29, 1883. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Discusses business concerning the Shakespeare Gesellschaft and the Shakespeare Jahrbuch, especially the practice of reviewing books.

(42) June 1, 1883. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Thanks Leo for fulfilling an [unspecified] request. Resumes the discussion of book reviewing and other matters pertaining to Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Suggests that A. Cohn should be considered as main speaker at the Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting in 1884.

(43) June 4, 1883. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Has no objection to Leo quoting a certain passage from a[n unidentified] letter, but he should be careful to do so as though on his own initiative. Delius himself has no intention of having further correspondence with the writer of the letter in question [Furnivall?].

(44) September 28, 1883. Letter from Bremen.

German.

Has received Leo’s “justifiedly sardonic” letter belatedly. He had been in the country near Bonn, where he spent some time during the autumn. Will begin working on an article for Shakespeare Jahrbuch at once.

(45) October 12, 1883. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Referring to a submission for Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Delius repeats his view that articles which are too long should be either reduced or refused.

(46) October 14, 1883. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Was interested in Leo’s report on [A.H.] Bullen’s collection of plays [A.H. Bullen (ed.), A Collection of Old English Plays, 4 vols. (London, 1882-1885)] and will be pleased to review it for the Jahrbuch. Is working on an article on friendship in Shakespeare’s plays; will send him the manuscript. Advises against reprinting the whole of an Italian translation of Hamlet in the Jahrbuch but recommends printing an excerpt such as the “To be” soliloquy, and he, Delius, could add a similar extract from a Roumanian translation in blank verse. Asks Leo to sound out Albert Cohn about his readiness to give the main lecture at the Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting in 1884. Will also write to him himself; asks for address. Promises to fulfill a request by his (Delius’s) former pupil Vollmüller.

(47) October 18, 1883. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Advises against printing the libretto of Ambleto [an Italian opera by Apostolo Zeno based not on Shakespeare’s Hamlet but on its sources, cf. Shakespeare Jahrbuch 19 (1884), p. 351] in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, which should avoid material that, as in this case, has little to do with Shakespeare. But some notice would be in place. Discusses details such as the scene between Ambleto and Gertrude in the second act. Has not yet had time for the two volumes of the Bullen collection, because he is preparing to teach a colloquium on Dante’s Divina Commedia next winter semester.

(48) November 8, 1883. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Thinks that specimens from the two historical tragedies in Bullen’s collection, together with a report on the work as a whole, would enrich the Jahrbuch, but advises against printing complete translations. Thümmel will give the lecture at the Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting [in 1884].

(49) November 16, 1883. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Has reread the plays in Bullen’s collection, in response to Leo’s question as to which ones he would recommend for translation. But the result has been somewhat disappointing. Singles out the tragedies Nero and Barneveld [i.e., The Life of John of Barneveld]. Refers to Bullen’s introduction, but is not convinced that the authorship of the plays is to be ascribed to Fletcher and Massinger. The dramatic concentration would be untypical of Fletcher. Barneveld might be the work of a talented “Anonymus” who had learnt from Fletcher and Massinger. The other plays in the collection are of interest only because of their obscurity.

Confirms that Prof. Thümmel has consented to give the main lecture at the next Shakespeare meeting [lecture printed as Julius Thümmel, “Im Meermädchen” in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 20 (1885), pp. 15-36]. Congratulates Leo on his election as city councillor.

(50) November 18, 1883. Postcard from Bonn.

German.

Has sent, on behalf of the presidium of the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft, a letter of condolence to H.H. Furness.

(51) December 2, 1883. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Is sorry that Leo is unable to visit him in Bonn. Resumes discussion of Bullen’s collection of plays and explains his intention to add a critical appendix to an informative report on the work [printed in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 19 (1884), pp. 282-285]. He will have to disagree with the “bold hypothesis” of Fletcher’s and Massinger’s authorship of Barneveld. Has sent proofs of his article to Weimar.

(52) December 20, 1883. Postcard from Bonn.

German.

Will spend Christmas vacation in Bremen.

(53) January 15, 1884. Letter from Bonn.

German.

An obituary on Ulrici for the Jahrbuch should confine itself to the essentials of his biography and do no more than touch upon his status as a pioneering Shakespearean. “Denn Ulricis Shakespearearbeiten gehören längst der Literaturgeschichte an und brauchen nicht noch einmal dem jetzigen Publikum vorgeführt und analysiert zu werden.” ['For Ulrici’s studies on Shakespeare have long been part of literary history and need not once again be demonstrated and analyzed for an audience of to-day.'] Takes up Leo’s suggestion that Thümmel should be asked to write the obituary. Perhaps Elze could help out with material, even though the latter feels that the Shakespeare Gesellschaft has treated him badly [the Ulrici obituary (anonymous, probably written by Leo himself) is in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 19 (1884), pp. 319-320]. More remarks on the review of Bullen’s anthology.

(54) January 30, 1884. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Has heard that Leo is planning to travel to Nice and is hastening to ask where the review of the Bullen collection should be sent in his absence.

(55) March [?] 22, 1884. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Will travel to Montreux for two weeks. Declares his firm intention to step down from the presidium of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft at the latter’s next meeting in Weimar.

(56) March 31, 1884. Letter from Montreux.

German.

(57) May 19, 1885 [?]. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Is reluctant to give a definitive answer concerning an article for Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Has been contemplating something on Antony and Cleopatra and its relation to the Plutarchian source, similar to his earlier studies of Coriolanus and Julius Caesar [see Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 11 (1876), pp. 32-58 and 17 (1882), pp. 67-81 respectively]. But this would overlap with Dr. Vatke’s treatment of the same subject [referring to Theodor Vatke, “Shakespeares Antonius und Kleopatra und Plutarchs Biographie des Antonius,” Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 3 (1868), pp. 301 ff]. Asks for advice and reserves his final decision.

(58) June [?] 6, 1885. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Apologizes for having caused him to read Vatke’s article on Shakespeare’s Roman Histories. Suggests “Die Zwischenspiele und [...] Einlagen in Shakespeares Dramen” as a new topic. [Eventually printed as Nikolaus Delius, “Einlagen und Zuthaten in Shakespeares Dramen,” Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 21 (1886), pp. 18-42.]

(59) July 19, 1885. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Has returned from Bremen. Thanks Leo for a present (apparently a collection of essays). Will shortly send his article for Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(60) September 24, 1885. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Will travel to Vienna shortly and expects to be back in Bonn by mid-October for the winter semester, during which he will teach a colloquium on Dante. Will return galley proofs by October 15.

(61) October 27, 1885. Postcard from Bonn.

German.

Has returned proofs for Shakespeare Jahrbuch to the printer in Weimar.

(62) November 17, 1885. Postcard from Bonn.

German.

Leo may keep Vol. IV [of an unidentified work]. The first three volumes have been enough for him; he does not desire to be further involved with Boyd, Fleay and company.

(63) June 10, 1886 [?]. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Thanks Leo for proceedings from Weimar and congratulates him on having well treated a well-chosen subject. Has had a report from Vincke about the meeting. Personal matters, with a reference to his recent stay in Montreux.

(64) June 17, 1886. Letter from Bonn.

German.

Apologies for not having fulfilled a promise to contribute some article. Hopes to be present at the next Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting.

(65) August 29, 1886. Letter from Blumenthal (nr. Bremen)

German.

(Attached to last letter.) [cs 613]

Y.c.1519 (1) DIELITZ, [Rudolf?], b. 1831

Dresden.

(1) June 10, 1890. Postcard from Pillnitz.

German.

Thanks Leo for offprint from Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Announces more news “in the matter of G.R.” [probably referring to Leo’s article “Rosenkrantz und Guldenstern,” Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 25 (1890), 281-286]. [cs 613]

Y.c.1520 (1-2) DINGELSTEDT, Franz, Freiherr von, 1814-1881

Theatre director and author.

(1) April 21, 1852. Letter from M[unich].

German.

Letter addressed to “Quanter” discussing personal differences.

(2) March [July?] 22, 1864 [?]. Letter from [?].

German.

Reply to note of 18 inst. A plenary session cannot be considered at this point. Loesser has already departed. “Requiescat in pace the Shakespeare business.” [cs 613]

Y.c.1521 (1-4) DÖRING, Theodor, 1803-1878

Actor in Berlin (1845 ff.).

(1) January 20, 1867. Note from Berlin.

German.

Declines invitation.

(2) February 15, 1871. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Announces theatre production of Leo’s stage adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra.

(3) N.d. Photo.

Döring’s portrait dedicated to Miss Gertrude Leo.

(4 a-b) 2 pencil-written notes.

German.

Concerning two bottles of champagne. [cs 613]

Y.c.1522 (1-27) ELZE, Karl, 1821-1889

Professor. Editor, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, from 1868 to 1879.

(1) May 26, 1866. Letter from Dessau.

German.

Is working on an edition of a play by Chapman, not printed since 1654 but interesting because of its international subject-matter. Asks Leo’s advice about finding a publisher. Also discusses emendations in Hamlet. Asks Leo to lend him one of the latest volumes of Notes and Queries.

(2) June 28, 1866. Letter from Dessau.

German.

Repeats his enquiry about a publisher for his Chapman play. Because of the war he finds it difficult to obtain books from Göttingen or Berlin and asks Leo for help.

(3) July 22, 1866. Letter from Dessau.

German.

Returns borrowed volumes of Notes and Queries. Because of the war he has not yet taken further steps to publish his edition of Chapman. Suggests that the next Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting should take place in Dessau, because of both the war and the cholera epidemic in Berlin.

(4) September 28, 1866. Letter from Dessau.

German.

Refers to his Hamlet conjectures published in Athenaeum, to which Dr. Cartwright from Shrewsbury has responded; also sends his own book for review in Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Asks Leo to write the review.

(5) March 8, 1869. Letter from Dessau.

German.

Wonders if Leo’s stage adaptations (Coriolanus, Macbeth) might be reprinted in Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(6) March 14, 1869. Letter from Dessau.

German.

Printing of Leo’s two stage versions will, in view of present circumstances, be postponed until next year.

(7) June 5, 1872. Letter from Dessau.

German.

Encloses a letter from Oechelhäuser [apparently concerning the Shakespeare Gesellschaft committee on the German. Shakespeare edition; see also Ulrici letters below]. Preparatory talks between Elze and Leo do not seem necessary; Leo need not travel to Dessau. Elze suggests that the following persons should be invited to collaborate on the edition: Alexander Schmidt, Dr. Tschischwitz, Dr. Gericke, Hermann Kurz. He will be able to persuade one or two more at the conference. It will be hard for Delius and Hertzberg to participate, but a last attempt might be made. Describes Gericke as a sound and experienced worker, and H. Kurz as being particularly knowledgeable on Merry Wives, Henry IV and Henry V and used to philological work. If authorized by Leo, Elze will write to these gentlemen, and everything else could be settled at a conference.

(8) June 24, 1872. Letter from Dessau.

German.

Difficulties of finding a date for the conference [on the German. Shakespeare edition] convenient for everyone concerned. Refers to an enclosed letter from Oechelhäuser. Tschischwitz, Gericke and H. Kurz (Tübingen) have consented to participate in the project. A. Schmidt has declined, because he is busy with his Lexicon (“weil er über die Ohren in seinem Lexicon steckt”). Other names might be discussed orally. Elze also refers to plans for a Variorum Edition. Suggests that Leo allow some extra time; in Wörlitz he would like to show him a Shakespeare portrait, an old English copy of the Jansen portrait.

(9) October 19, 1872. Letter from Dessau.

German.

Reports on Shakespeare Gesellschaft presidium meeting in Weimar. Only Elze himself, Ulrici and Vincke had come from outside Weimar. The German. Shakespeare edition project was discussed, especially the commentary and financial aspects. Of the publishers contacted, Weigel had refused outright, and Brockhaus was only interested if the Shakespeare Gesellschaft would pay the honoraria. None of this seemed acceptable. Hence Elze considers his mission as concluded, although the matter is to be discussed again next April. Also mentions a suggestion that the Jahrbuch should be converted into a journal, 4 issues a year, but does not like the idea. Points out that the debates were “uncommonly smooth and peaceful.” (“Die Debatten gingen ungewöhnlich glatt und friedlich ab.”)

(10) November 21, 1873. Letter from Dessau.

German.

Concerning a lecture for the Shakespeare Gesellschaft. Ulrici and he have chosen the second of Leo’s proposed themes: “Chaucer’s influence on Shakespeare” - though he reminds Leo that the audience’s familiarity with Chaucer’s language would be limited.

(11) March 5, 1875. Letter from Dessau.

German.

Responds to a request from Leo to accept a longish review for Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Points out that there is practically no more room in the forthcoming issue, and that reviews should not be as long as they sometimes are. Elze will make an exception if Leo’s review of a book by “W” [Werder?] is no longer than 3-4 pages and if the MS. arrives within 10 or 11 days.

(12) June 9, [1875?]. Postcard from Halle.

German.

Acknowledgement.

(13) September 18, 1875. Letter from Halle.

German.

Wonders what progress Leo has made with the article promised for Shakespeare Jahrbuch. The contractual deadline is October 1, though many contributors tend to ask for extensions. But Elze would like to print Leo’s piece at the very beginning of the volume: “Die meisten Mitarbeiter pflegen die Ablieferung ihres Beitrags so weit als möglich hinauszuschieben, woraus dann im Frühjahr die bekannte Hetzjagd entsteht, die für das Jahrbuch wie für mich persönlich gleich unvorteilhaft ist.” ['Most of the contributors put off submitting their work for as long as possible. This then causes the usual chase once the spring comes round, which does neither the Jahrbuch nor me personally any good.']

(14) November 15, 1878. Postcard from Halle.

German.

Acknowledges receipt of “Four Chapters” [i.e., Leo’s Four Chapters of North’s Plutarch as Sources to Shakespeare’s Tragedies (London, 1878)].

(15) May 8, 1879. Letter from Halle.

German.

[Elze is preparing to hand over the editorship of the Shakespeare Jahrbuch to Leo.] Will send submitted MSS. and a list of promised MSS. Also specifies honoraria that are due to various authors. “M 48.- per gathering.”

(16) May 15, 1879. Letter from Halle.

German.

Declines to write a full article for the Shakespeare Jahrbuch, but may contribute a short one (conjectures and notes). Points out that he has written to authors of submitted or promised articles that Leo will be the future editor.

(17) June 12, 1879. Letter from Halle.

German.

Regrets that, for reasons of bad health, he is unable to write the annual report on new publications [for the Shakespeare Jahrbuch]; it has required much work, which few readers will appreciate.

(18) October 9, 1879. Letter from Halle.

German.

Regrets that he cannot finish the short article he promised. His health requires that he spend as little time sitting at his desk as possible. Has devoted his remaining energies to elaborating his lectures, and has also finished a book in English (Notes on Elizabethan Dramatists and Conjectural Emendations of the Text), “welded together from old and new material” [“aus Altem und Neuem zusammengeschweißt”]. His brother will send an article.

(19) October 23, 1879. Letter from Halle.

German.

Encloses his brother’s article for Shakespeare Jahrbuch and gives notice of one by Mrs. Caroline Michaelis da Vasconcellas.

(20) Dec. 21, 1879. Letter from Halle.

German.

Will be able to write “Additional remarks on Mucedorus and Fair Em” during the vacation and asks if there is still room in Shakespeare Jahrbuch. He will not require an honorarium.

(21) January 7, 1880. Letter from Halle.

German.

Briefs Leo on the policy of payment of honoraria for contributions to Shakespeare Jahrbuch. The original honorarium was 16 Thaler. Delius, Vincke, Oechelhäuser and probably Ulrici have never accepted honoraria. Later on the sum was reduced, for reasons of economy. Refers Leo to the treasurer’s lists.

(22) January 11, 1880. Letter from Halle.

German.

Is sending the promised article and requests that it be printed as soon as possible, since he would like to be free of it once and for all, having dwelt on this matter for so long.

(23) February 18, 1880. Postcard from Halle.

German.

A Swedish translation of Elze’s Weimar lecture has appeared in Finsk Tidskrift för Vitterhet, Vetenskap, Konst och Politik..., 1880, pp. 136-145.

(24) October 20, 1881. Letter from Halle.

German.

Regrets being unable to contribute to the Shakespeare Jahrbuch, since he is busy on a work of his own.

(25) April 4, 1882. Postcard from Halle.

German.

Asks Leo to confirm that the passage printed in Jahrbuch XVI, p. 386 - “You don't appreciate the kind of personal insult that an Englishman feels when a German sits down etc.” - is from Furnivall [this was quoted anonymously in Leo’s review of an article by Richard Grant White]. German Shakespeareans have good reason to remember this.

(26) December 8, 1885. Letter from Halle.

German.

Hopes that the second volume of his Notes will at last be reviewed in Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Declines to write an obituary on Thümmel, because the deceased was too close to him [an obituary on J.S. Thümmel appeared anonymously in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 21 (1886), pp. 299-300, probably written by Leo himself]. Encloses obituaries from the papers.

(27) June 25, 1887. Postcard from Halle.

German.

Points out that the booklet Was Shakespeare Shapleigh? ed. by J. Winsor (Boston, 1887), which he had received from America, was, of course, a joke. [cs 613]

Y.c.1523 (1-7) ENGEL, Eduard, 1851-1939

Stenographer and writer.

(1) N.d. Visiting card.

German.

(2) N.d. Note.

German.

Is returning [a book].

(3) April 3, 1885. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Accompanying the copy of an “epistle,” [no longer present].

(4) January 4, 1894. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Thanks Leo for books.

(5) November 4, 1895. Note from Berlin.

German.

Announces visit to talk about Shakespeare Jahrbuch contribution.

(6) September 9, 1896. Letter from B[erlin].

German.

States that he has discovered a French Shakespeare translation (10 plays) of 1746 and enquires if the Shakespeare Jahrbuch has ever published anything on it. The Königliche Bibliothek, Berlin, owns a copy of Théâtre anglais, 8 volumes.

(7) March 19, 1897. Letter from Berlin.

German.

On the First Folio copy in the Königliche Bibliothek Berlin: he has learned from official sources that the copy was presented to the library on Jan. 26, 1859 by Prinzregent Wilhelm. He will mention this in the third edition of his book Shakespeare [see Lee, Census, 100]. [cs 613]

Y.c.1524 (1-2) FISCHER, Kuno, 1824-1907

Professor of Philosophy in Heidelberg.

(1 a-b) June 3, 1895. Letter from Heidelberg.

German.

Thanks Leo for manuscript of his adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra.

(2 a-b) November 10, 1895. Letter from Heidelberg.

German.

Regrets that he was not at home when Leo tried to call on him. His Shakespeare lecture is available for Shakespeare Jahrbuch [Kuno Fischer, “Shakespeare und die Bacon-Mythen,” Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 32 (1896), pp. 3-39]. [cs 613]

Y.c.1525 (1) FLEAY, Frederick Gard, 1831-1909

British scholar.

(1) July 19, 1882. Postcard from London.

English.

Offers article on Richard III for Shakespeare Jahrbuch [see LEO, July 28, 1882, for Leo’s refusal]. [cs 613]

Y.c.1526 (1) FLEMING, William Hansell, 1844-1915 (1) Jan. 20, 1890. Letter from New York.

English.

Announces that Leo was elected an honorary member of the Shakespeare Society of New York at the regular meeting of Dec. 19, 1889.

Cs 613

Y.c. 1527 (1-3) FLOWER, Charles Edward, 1830-1892 (1) January 3, 1877. Letter to Dr. C. Abel from Stratford-upon-Avon.

English.

Suggests cooperation between Shakespeare Memorial Association and Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft.

(2) January 29, 1877. Letter from Stratford-upon-Avon.

English.

Would like to invite Leo to be his guest if he is in Stratford on April 23.

(3) February 2, 1881. Postcard from Stratford-upon-Avon.

English.

Mentions that the Shakespeare Memorial Library “is now completed and ready for the reception of books.” [cs 613]

Y.c.1528 (1-3) FRENZEL, Karl Wilhelm Theodor, 1827-1914

Journalist.

(1) February 10, 1870. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Has spoken to the Duke of Meiningen about Leo’s stage adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra and elicited interest.

(2) February 20, 1870. Letter from [Berlin?].

German.

Reports on the Duke of Meiningen’s casting problems with Leo’s stage version of Antony and Cleopatra.

(3) May 12, 1882. Note from Berlin.

German.

Cannot accept an invitation to write for Shakespeare Jahrbuch. [cs 613]

Y.c.1529 (1-18) FRIESEN, Hermann, Freiherr von, 1802-1882

Court marshall (Hofmarschall) in Dresden; Shakespeare scholar.

(1) April 6, 1869. Letter from Dresden.

German.

Thanks Leo for comments on his translation of Shakespeare’s sonnets. He has worked on this translation for more than ten years. Some sonnets he has revised repeatedly and extensively; in some cases the translation seemed more spontaneous. - The complimentary copies for Leo and another friend have been inadvertently mixed up.

(2) November 19, 1869. Letter from Dresden.

German.

Apologies for having forgotten to send the copy of his translation of Shakespeare’s sonnets originally inscribed for Leo. - Reports that Bodenstedt has been dismissed [from his post as theatre director] in Meiningen; but he will retain his salary. Friesen is busy writing his memoirs. Asks Leo to give his regards to Leo’s friend Gmelin.

(3) May 31, 1871. Letter from Rötha.

German.

Announces a copy of his memoirs, which he would have liked to hand over to Leo in person. There is more idealism than materialism in his book; it is based on his convictions. - His ill health has prevented him from attending the Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting in Weimar.

(4) May 9, 1872. Letter from Dresden.

German.

Has arranged accommodation for a meeting of friends of Shakespeare (presidium members of Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft): Leo, Vincke, Elze and Oechelhäuser. Is looking forward to the meeting, although he does not have very high hopes for the results (“wiewohl ich hinsichtlich der aus unseren Vorstandsbesprechungen zu gewinnenden Resultate keine sanguinischen Hoffnungen hege”). His paper on Shakespeare’s Histories is ready.

(5) N.d. [1873?]. Letter.

German.

Is sending an offprint of his Shakespeare lecture of last year, to be published in Shakespeare Jahrbuch. He has for some time been almost exclusively interested in Shakespeare. Has studied stylistic and metrical criteria for a chronology of the plays, especially with regard to Coriolanus, and has profited from Leo’s edition. Has begun to write a book on Shakespeare, but is painfully aware of his limited, dilettantish knowledge of Shakespeare. Too much has been written - and believed, because some expert has written it. “Denn sehr oft glauben die Herren das gar nicht wirklich, was sie uns mit der größten Sicherheit aufbinden [...] Ich muß nun sehr häufig die Nase in Bücher stecken, die mir sehr langweiling sind, manchmal nur darum, um die Gewißheit zu haben, daß das nicht darin steht, was ein anderer darin gefunden haben will.” [`Very often these gentlemen themselves do not believe what they would impress on us with the greatest air of conviction. [...] I now frequently find myself having to read the most tedious books, sometimes only to make sure that they do not in fact contain what another claims to have found in them.'] He wonders if, under these circumstances, his book will ever be finished.

(6) May 14, 1873. Letter from Dresden.

German.

Has arranged a meeting of a delegation of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft in Dresden for May 31. Suggests that he meet with Leo, Ulrici and Oechelhäuser the evening before. Talks about his recent reading of Orlando Furioso, after having finished Spenser’s Fairy Queen [sic]; compares the two: Ariosto is more lively, with more freshness of life, and more direct than Spenser. Whereas Spenser is moral, Ariosto is lascivous to a high degree.

(7 a-d) November 8, 1873. Letter from Dresden.

German.

Asks for help with sonnet IX from Daniel’s Delia (“If this be love...”), especially 1. 2 “paint on floods.” He is making progress (though slower than expected) with his book Altengland und Shakespeare. He sometimes has the impression that he is only saying what has been said before - but he is determined to finish the work. - The letter contains translations of two Drayton sonnets and of a Daniel sonnet to Delia. Poems listed in the Folger index of first lines: Drayton, Idea III: Will ich mein Weh in Schrift und Worte fassen, Drayton, Idea VII: Als Amor launig den Verschwender spielte Daniel, Delia: If this be love, to draw a weary breath, translation: Ist’s Lieb, am Strand in Seufzern wehzuklagen.

(8) December 16, 1873. Letter from Dresden.

German.

Thanks Leo for comment on the Daniel sonnet, and further discusses 1.2 “paint on floods;” he would like to include it in an anthology which he is planning. The first part of his book Altengland und Shakespeare will be ready for publication on April 23, when he will present it at the Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting in Weimar.

(9 a-b) Deccember 29, 1873. Letter from Dresden.

German.

In response to a translation by Leo of a sonnet [Daniel, Delia, IX?], von Friesen is now sending manuscript translations of the same and three other Daniel sonnets. The four sonnet translations (Delia, IX, X, XIX, XX) are included. Has sent the manuscript of his Shakespeare studies to his publisher and hopes to write a third volume. Discusses the authenticity of the Henry VI plays.

Poems listed in the Folger index of first lines:

XX: Athmen, was ist’s, wenn Leben nicht lebending, IX: Ist’s Liebe müde seufzen voller Bangen X: Dann lieb’ ich müde seufzend voller Bangen XIX: Dem Erz des Goldes stell zurück dein Haar, (10) February 14, 1874. Letter from Dresden.

German.

Wonders with extreme politeness why Leo has not responded to his letter of December 17 and his manuscript translations of sonnets by Daniel.

(11) February 17, 1874. Letter from Dresden.

German.

Responds to Leo’s letter of Feb. 16 and to his remarks on Henry VI. Intends to rewrite part of his book, even if that will delay its publication. Comments on the founding of the New Shakespeare Society in London; refers to an article in the Saturday Review (Jan 3, 1874) warning the New Shakespeare Society not to turn into a clique, which is what happened to (Collier’s) old Shakespeare Society. Then discusses R. Benedix’s recent book Über die Shakespearomanie (which he only knows from its refutation).

(12) March 17, 1874. Letter from Dresden.

German.

While writing on Romeo and Juliet he came across a pamphlet on this play by one G.V. Hartmann, which is full of the same materialist nonsense as recently served up by R. Benedix(“voll desselben [?] materialistischen Unsinns, den uns Benedix auftischt”). He also found an old English sonnet; a translation of it is in the letter, but he has lost the original (“Wollt ihr den Esel für sein strunk'ges Heu/Seefische Austern oder Caviar geben,/ Glaubt mir, er frißt nicht, und ein wild Geschrei/ Wird er voll Gier nach beß'rem Fraß erheben [...]”). Is looking forward to seeing Shakespearean friends in Weimar. Volume I of his Shakespeare book will be ready to go into print in early June. Poem listed in the Folger index of first lines.

(13) June 8, 1875. Letter from Dresden.

German.

Hopes that Leo has received vol. II of his Shakespeare-Studien. Plans to send volume III to the printer’s within the month. Complains of increasingly bad health.

(14) October 9, 1875. Letter from Dresden.

German.

Discusses the meaning of the word Einspänniger, mistranslated in A. Cohn’s Shakespeare in Germany as ‘one-horse carriage'; in fact it means a soldier of the bodyguard as it existed in the Electorate of Saxony until 1635. Hence the meaning of the passage referred to by Cohn on English players’ activities must be corrected.

(15 a-b) December 1, 1875. Letter from Dresden.

German.

Having completed his Shakespeare studies he is now continuing his memoirs. Asks Leo to compare his description of Freiherr von Stein (whom he met 50 years ago) with the statue of him on the monument recently erected in Berlin.

(16) December 5, 1875. Letter from Dresden.

German.

Thanks Leo for photograph of the Berlin von Stein monument. Thinks that his recollection of the man’s physical stature is on the whole correct.

(17) June 17, 1877. Letter from Rötha.

German.

Talks about his poor health. Critical comment on [Felix] Dahn’s novel Ein Kampf um Rom.

(18 a-b) July 4, 1877. Letter from Rötha.

German.

Is sending photograph requested by Leo. His health is still poor. Then discusses at length the question of Ulrici’s successor as president of the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft. Very interesting critical comments (confidential) on K. Elze, who has been named as a possible candidate.

“Die Wahl eines neuen Präsidenten nach dem Abgang von Ulrici ist bei den Bestandtheilen unserer Gesellschaft überhaupt eine mißliche Aufgabe. Wir brauchen einen Namen, der von der deutschen Welt repräsentirt. Soviel mir an Ulrici’s inniger Vertrautheit mit der ganzen Ausdehnung von Sh’s Geist und hoher Bedeutung zu wünschen übrig bleibt, genügte er doch nach Außen hin diesem Bedürfniß, wiewohl seine Haltung als Vorsitzender nicht immer befriedigend war. Elze mag glauben in beiden Beziehungen mehr zu sein. Meines Erachtens ist das eine Täuschung. Was die Kenntniß des literarischen Materials zum Verständniß [von] Shakespeare und seiner Zeit anlangt, mag kaum etwas übrig bleiben. Sein aesthetisch kritisches Urteil ist dagegen nicht stark und leidet an großer Befangenheit. Daher machen auch seine überaus flüssig ausgearbeiteten Aufsätze auf die Leser keinen günstigen Eindruck, am Wenigsten wissen sie die Gemüther zu gewinnen. Der wesentliche Grund liegt in der Zähigkeit, mit welcher er seine selten glücklichen Hypothesen und Combinationen, die immer nur auf der Stärke der Eklectik beruhen, oft nicht ohne Anmaßung, aufrecht zu erhalten sucht. Also nach außen hin würde er nicht imponieren, wenigstens in Deutschland nicht, wenn er gleich in England einen Namen gewonnen zu haben scheint, worauf ich aber aus Gründen, deren Darlegung mich zu weit führen würde, nicht viel gebe. Was nun die Handhabung des Präsidium nach Innen angelangt, so giebt mir diese spezielle Eigenschaft Elze’s, von der ich wiederholte Beweise erlebt habe, die gegründete Befürchtung, daß er, mit oder ohne Absicht und Willen, die Thätigkeit der Gesellschaft auf die Bahn einseitiger Anschauungen leiten, mit anderen Worten im Sinne einer Clique zu führen suchen würde, wie dieß bei der alten englischen Shakespearege-sellschaft unter der Leitung von P. Collier der Fall war. Vorderhand haben wir uns von diesem Vorwurf frei gehalten, wiewohl Elze als Redakteur nicht immer von einseitiger Parteilichkeit frei geblieben ist und daher unser Jahrbuch die Popularität, die ich ihm wünsche, besonders in den höheren Kreisen der Gebildeten nicht erlangt hat.”

['The choice of a new president to succeed Ulrici is indeed an awkward business given the membership of our society. We need a name which can represent the German. world. Whatever my reservations about the extent to which Ulrici appreciates the true genius of Shakespeare and his great significance, he did at least appear to the outside world to have these credentials, even if his conduct as president was not always satisfactory. Elze may believe himself superior in both these respects. In my view, however, this is a delusion. As far as his mastery of the literary material relevant to an understanding of Shakespeare and his age is concerned, there may be little to fault him on. His literary critical judgment, on the other hand, leaves much to be desired and suffers from marked one-sidedness. As a result, not even his essays, despite the undoubted fluency of their style, are able to make a favourable impression - they do not win over the reader. The fundamental reason for this lies in the tenacity with which he seeks (often not without pretentiousness) to uphold his rarely felicitous hypotheses and constructions, which draw their sole strength from their eclecticism. He would fail to make a sufficient impression on the outside world, at least in Germany, even if he does seem to have made a name for himself in England - a point which, for reasons that it would take too long to elaborate on here, I would not consider a particular recommendation. With regard to his competence in the presidium’s internal affairs, here too I have some justification for fearing that Elze’s particular character traits, of which I have seen ample evidence, would cause him, whether willingly and intentionally or not, to make the society’s activities too one-sided; in other words, he would try to turn it into a sort of clique, as happened with the old English Shakespeare Society under the chairmanship of P. Collier. So far we have always managed to steer clear of such criticism, although, as editor of the Jahrbuch, Elze has not always been free of partisanship, with the result that it has not achieved the popularity, especially in more cultured circles, that I would have wished for it.']

Delius might be a more convincing representative of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft, but von Friesen has doubts as to his leadership qualities. Since no really outstanding candidate is in view, however, von Friesen suggests as an interim solution the election of Oechelhäuser:

“Delius würde dagegen nach Außen weit besser repräsentieren. Wiewohl er in aesthetisch-kritischer Hinsicht meinen Wünschen ebenfalls nicht entspricht, hat er den großen Vorzug einer weit unbefangeneren Meinung vor Elze voraus und sein Name ist als fleißiger Herausgeber der Werke von Shakespeare weit mehr angesehn als der von Elze. Was seine Unbefangenheit betrifft, so könnte ich Beispiele von seiner zuvorkommenden und liebenswürdigen Nachgiebigkeit gegen direkte Widersprüche anführen. Die Furcht, daß er unsere Gesellschaft auf den ausschließlichen Standpunkt der Clique führen würde, ist mir völlig fern. Aber leider! Wie soll er bei seiner beklagenswerthen Schwerhörigkeit den Vorsitz in einer Debatte wirklich führen? Sehe ich mich nun untern den anderen Mitgliedern des Vorstandes und der ganzen Gesellschaft um, so bin ich am Ende meines Lateins. Neben allen verehrungswürdigen Namen, unter denen ich nur Herzbergs und des Geheimrats Dr. Schöll oder Loens, auch des Freiherrn von Vincke gedenken will, steht ein Bedenken, das ich, um als Jurist zu sprechen, als impedimentum derimeni ansehen muß. Was nun thun? Sollte es unter so drückenden Umständen nicht besser sein, es vor der Hand es bei dem Präsidium Oechelhäuser - Loen zu lassen? Vielleicht treten mit der Zeit günstigere Umstände ein, die ich freilich [...] nicht in der nächsten Zukunft eintreten sehe, und schwerlich erleben werde.”

['Delius, by contrast, would make a far more suitable representative. While his aesthetic and critical abilities do not correspond to my wishes either, he does have the advantage over Elze of being considerable more objective in his views, and his reputation as an industrious editor of Shakespeare’s works is far greater than that of Elze. With regard to his impartiality, I could give instances of his accommodating readiness to concede in the face of direct opposition. I have no fear whatsoever that he might seek to make our society into a clique. But alas! How could he possibly chair a discussion when he is so regrettably hard of hearing? If I look round among the remaining members of the presidium or even the society as a whole, then I am lost for further suggestions. Every one of the names that commend themselves, of which I will mention simply Herzberg, Geheimrat Dr. Schöll, or Loen, or even Baron von Vincke, raises doubts in my mind, which, speaking as a lawyer, I have to regard as an impedimentum detrimenti. What is to be done? Might it not be better, given the urgency of the matter, to elect Oechelhäuser and Loen (?) for the time being. Things may take a more favourable turn in time, though I honestly [...] do not see this happening in the near future, or indeed even in my own lifetime.'] [cs 613]

Additional note:

Hermann Freiherr von Friesen’s Shakspere-Studien repeatedly referred to were published as follows:

Vol I.: Altengland und William Shakespere. Wien, Braumüller, 1874, 452 pp. Vol. II: William Shakespere’s Dramen vom Beginn seiner Laufbahn bis 1601. Wien, Braumüller, 1875, 390 pp. Vol. III: William Shakespere’s Dramen von 1601 bis zum Schlusse seiner Laufbahn. Wien: Braumüller, 1876, 549 pp. Y.c.1530 (1-29) FURNESS, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (1) December 12, 1875. Letter from Philadelphia.

English.

Thanks Leo for Register of the Shakespeare Jahrbücher. “Without an index a book, no matter how valuable, remains more or less sealed.” Has read that Leo is at work on a variorum edition of Shakespeare and offers assistance.

(2) January 2, 1878. Letter from Philadelphia, probably written by his wife [?] and signed by Furness

German.

Thanks Leo for specimen of his reproduction from North’s Plutarch.

(3) September 13, 1878. Letter from Philadelphia.

English.

Acknowledges Leo’s advance notice that he will be sending Furness a copy of his [Four Chapters of] North’s Plutarch.

(4) October 20, 1878. Letter from Lindenshade, Delaware County.

English.

The Plutarch has arrived. Furness praises it as “lavishly elegant,” also admiring “the sheet of transparent linen, exquisitely inserted in the cover.”

(5) March 10, 1880. Letter from Philadelphia.

English.

Thanks Leo for offprint of his “Shakespeare, das Volk und die Narren” [Leo’s lecture at the annual meeting of the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft, printed in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 15 (1880), pp. 1-17]. He has been busy on King Lear, which is finished at last, and will be sending Leo “one of the very first copies issued.” For Leo’s response see his letter to Furness dated April 4, 1880 (Furness Library), to which Furness responds by the Folger letter of April 29 below.

(6) April 29, 1880. Letter from Philadelphia.

English.

Thanks Leo for two reprints from Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Regrets that one of them did not arrive six months earlier, in time to be included in the Variorum King Lear.

(7 a-b) May 3, 1881. Letter from Philadelphia.

English.

Does not concur with Leo’s explanation of the “Vllorxa” crux, but thinks it is ingenious. Mentions Mrs. Furness’s ill health; he had travelled with her as far as Heidelberg, returning before Christmas [1880]. Thid item is printed in The Letters of Horace Howard Furness (Boston, 1922), I, 193 f.

(8) April 5, 1882. Letter from Philadelphia.

English.

Is sending a Shakespeare Calendar for 1881 and 1882: “containing events in the History of New York illustrated by Shakespeare.” Only 100 copies were printed for private distribution. The compiler was Mr. J.B. Moreau.

(9) April 26, 1882. Note from Philadelphia.

English.

Is enclosing “our last Bill of Fare.”

(10) June 4, 1882. Letter from Philadelphia.

English.

Glad to send any duplicate copies of Bill of Fare he may have to help complete Leo’s set. Accompanying the letter is a Bill of Fare for 1869.

(11) September 24, 1883. Letter from Wallingford, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

English.

Is sending a copy of an article on Hamlet’s “dram of eale,” by A.A. Adee.

(12) December 17, 1883. Note from Philadelphia.

English.

Thanks Leo for kind words.

(13) April 26, 1885. Letter from Philadelphia.

English.

Is sending latest “Bill of Fare” (the 33rd). “Booth has been acting here for a week, and dined with me nearly every day.”

(14) July 21, 1885. Letter from Wallingford, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

English.

Thanks Leo for kind letter and circulars about the Shakespeare Society, which he will distribute among his friends after the summer heat. Is sending a copy of Norris’s Portraits of Shakespeare.

(15) July 26, 1885. Letter from Wallingford.

English.

Thanks Leo for copy of [Shakespeare-] Notes. Praises Leo’s industry and knowledge of English. “I'd like to see the day when an English-speaking scholar could venture to criticise a German. author in German. .” Mentions that the irony in his treatment of Leo’s views on “sturdie Polack” [in his Variorum Hamlet] was removed for the second edition.

(16) N.d. (before 1886). Letter.

English.

Is sending an unidentified friend’s essay on Hamlet, with which he does “not feel strong enough to grapple.” Also mentions an interleaved copy of Othello, in which “Booth has written out for me all his stage business.”

That copy is extant at the Furness Library.

(17) April 28, 1889. Letter from Philadelphia.

English.

Is sending another “Bill of Fare.” Enquires about “dear Elze” [who has died].

(18) November 24, 1889. Letter from Wallingford.

English.

Belated thanks for the volume of Leo’s poems. Thinks of them as “charming, and graceful, and attractive.” He is seeing [the Variorum edition of] As You Like It through the press. “You Germans have been singularly silent over this delightful Comedy. My German extracts are very meagre in amount, and not of the highest tone in quality. The tragedies have attracted you far more than the comedies.” He himself prefers the latter; life itself is enough of a tragedy. This item is printed in The Letters of Horace Howard Furness (Boston, 1922), I. 259 f.

(19) July 30, 1890. Letter from Wallingford.

English.

Responds to announcement of the betrothal of Leo’s daughter and acknowledges receipt of Leo’s “Rosenkrantz und Guldenstern” [From Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 25 (1890), pp. 281-286. There is also a separate edition printed privately.]

(20 a-b) June 28, 1891. Letter from Wallingford.

English.

Letter of introduction for Dr. Jastrow of the University of Pennsylvania.

(21 a-b) October 31, 1891. Letter from Wallingford.

English.

Jastrow has brought Leo’s photograph [printed as a frontispiece to Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 35 (1899)]. Thanks Leo for having received Jastrow so kindly. Compliments Leo on the charming photogravure of his house on his stationary [a specimen of this stationary with a photogravure of Leo’s Berlin house is preserved in the Furness Library (letter from Leo to Furness of June 10, 1895)]. Furness would be proud to write for the Shakespeare Jahrbuch. But he has not a minute to spare from the work to which his life is devoted. He would like to complete as many Variorum volumes as he can. The Tempest is now finished. Remarks on Leo’s textual criticism. “You Germans scarcely realize how dear Shakespeare is to the English heart, and for a foreigner to step in and attempt to settle any little difficulty which we may have with him is exactly like a stranger’s interfering between husband and wife, and you know it is proverbial that in this latter case the stranger turns all the wrath upon himself.” Part of this letter is printed in The Letters of Horace Howard Furness (Boston, 1922), I. 273.

(22) November 9, 1891. Letter from Wallingford.

English.

Condolences [death of Leo’s daughter].

(23) March 19, 1892. Letter from Philadelphia.

English.

Thanks Leo for copy of his “Geflügelte Worte,” which he also considers “a fine tribute to the excellence of German translation. It is these concentrated phrases, where every word is full-weighted, which task the resources of the translator to the utmost.” [F.A. Leo, “Geflügelte Worte und volksthümlich gewordene Aussprüche aus Shakespeare’s dramatischen Werken,” Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 27 (1892), pp. 4-107. This is a collection of Shakespeare quotations. On its genesis see Oechelhäuser’s letters to Leo.]

(24 a-b) May 30, 1892. Letter from Wallingford.

English.

His son and daughter and Miss Logan may spend a few days in Berlin this summer, and he would like them to call on Leo.

(25) July 10, 1892. Letter from Wallingford.

English.

Thanks Leo for warm welcome given to his children and Miss Logan. [Furness wrote to his daughter on the same day: “...Good for old Leo! I am glad he responded cordially. I had a letter from him full of enthusiasm. [...] He’s evidently a good, warmhearted soul and was, I think, really gratified by your visit.” However, Miss Furness had also written that she hated Berlin, and Furness comments: “I, myself, never liked Berlin; there was an air of cold grandeur which displeased me, but then I attributed it to its Protestantism, and missed the warmer, more emotional atmosphere of the Catholic cities in South Germany.” The Letters of Horace Howard Furness (Boston, 1922), I. 275.]

(26) April 29, 1893. Letter from Philadelphia.

English.

Another “Bill of Fare.” He no longer compiles it himself.

(27) July 1, 1893. Letter from Wallingford.

English.

About his children and their travels; his son has gone to Japan and Australia. Will be glad to receive Mr. Martins, whom Leo has recommended to him.

(28 a-b) December 7, 1893. Letter from Philadelphia.

English.

Condolences [on death of Leo’s wife].

(29) May 12, 1897. Letter from Wallingford.

English.

On old age; another “Bill of Fare” enclosed.

Additional remarks by Furness on Leo.

On April 24, 1898, after the publication of the Variorum The Winter’s Tale, Furness wrote to his sister: “I am glad for many reasons that you went to see poor old Leo, who, I think, was smarting under what I said in the Preface to The Winter’s Tale, about German emendations of Shakespeare’s text. The letter of acknowledgment which he sent me for The Winter’s Tale was somewhat curt but now your visit has made everything serene and I shall have an enthusiastic letter from him telling of the pleasure your presence gave him. By the way, his wife was a cousin (own cousin, I think) of Heine. Poor man, his life has been, I fear, a good deal of a tragedy. His only daughter and child married a German brute, a sprig of nobility, who drove her to an early grave, and her poor mother died within two years, of a broken heart...” (Letters, II.9) The “curt” letter mentioned is preserved in the Furness Library, dated March 30, 1898. [cs 613]

Y.c.1531 (1-10) FURNIVALL, Frederick James, 1825-1910 (1) December 10, 1873. Letter from London.

English.

Leo has been made vice-president of the New Shakespere Society, along with Delius and Ulrici. Leo is invited to send a paper to be read at one of the meetings and to be published in the transactions.

(2) March 7, 1874. Letter from London.

English.

Has given up hope of finding a Royal patroness or patron for the New Shakspere Society and asks Leo to let the matter drop.

(3) January 15, 1874. Letter from London.

English.

The reading of Leo’s paper is scheduled for the autumn session. The Crown Princess has refused to countenance the New Shakspere Society. Furnivall expresses surprise and asks Leo to explain the Society’s motives to the Crown Princess’ secretary, Major De Normann, in person.

(4) January 3, 1874. Letter from Major De Normann, Private Secretary to the Crown Princess, to Furnivall, enclosed in the above. (5) August 27, 1874. Letter from London.

English.

Asking for the title of his paper for the autumn session of the New Shakspere Society.

(6) September 9, 1874. Letter from London.

English.

Furnivall will find another person to provide a paper for the November session but hopes Leo will have one ready next year.

(7) March 8, 1875. Letter from London.

English.

Reminds Leo that April 9 is the date scheduled for the reading of his paper. But if Leo cannot have it ready in time he will be able to substitute another one.

(8) August 25, 1876. Letter from London.

English.

Is sending proofs with quotations illustrating 1 Henry VI, V. v. 48-54 and Robin Goodfellow of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, for use in Leo’s variorum edition.

(9) September 2, 1878. Letter from London.

English.

Thanks Leo for copy of his Four Chapters [of North’s Plutarch].

(10) April 25, 1892. Note from London.

English.

Impersonal note declaring that Dr. Furnivall will never “renew relations with a man who he thinks has once played him false” (alluding to Halliwell affair). Furnivall refuses to see Leo in London. [cs 613]

Y.c.1532 (1-3) GAEDERTZ, Karl Theodor, 1855-1912

Librarian.

(1) February 8, 1890. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Asks for a copy of Shakespeare Jahrbuch 24, p. 165 (a review of his own book Altenglische Bühne).

(2) November 22, 1892. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Thanks Leo for an [unidentified] item of information.

(3) May 1, 1894. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Offers library service. Leo seems to be looking for an article on Emil Devrient’s Hamlet. Also condolences. [cs 613]

Y.c.1533 (1) GARNETT, Richard, 1835-1906

Librarian, British Museum.

(1) June 9, 1890. Acknowledgment from London.

English.

British Museum library acknowledges receipt of F.A. Leo’s “The Autograph of Rosenkranz and Güldenstern.”

Y.c.1534 (1-2) GEIGER, Ludwig, 1848-1919

Professor in Berlin.

(1) February 22, 1897. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Enquires whether the adaptation by [La Motte-] Fouqué of Schlegel’s translation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV is available in print. According to Schäffer and Hartmann’s account of the Berlin theatre, p. 41, it had been performed at the Berlin Schauspielhaus from January 16, 1820.

(2) February 26, 1897. Card from Berlin.

German.

Thanks Leo for information, but is unable to inspect the copy of Fouqué’s adaptation that is in Leo’s hands. Hopes that Leo will make it available publicly. [cs 613]

Y.c.1535 (1-11) GENÉE, Rudolph, 1824-1914

Dramatic reader. Shakespeare scholar.

(1) November 9, 1869. Letter from Dresden.

German.

Apologizes for not yet having brought the book he promised. Then reports on the success of his recitations and mentions competing reciters: Pallestre; Marino (= Wilhelm Jordan).

(2) November 1, 1877. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Apparently in reply to a suggestion that Genée write for the Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Genée has been too busy finishing his (autobiographical) book Zeiten und Menschen. But he wants to resume work on his book on Shakespeare.

(3) November 16, 1877. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Apology for not yet having brought his photograph.

(4) April 5, 1890. Note from Berlin.

German.

Declines to review Shakespeare’s True Life.

(5) August 3, 1890. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Informs Leo that the honorarium for his article in Shakespeare Jahrbuch has failed to reach him.

(6) May 8, 1891. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Offers to send a revised copy of his lecture of 23 April [1891] for publication in Shakespeare Jahrbuch of the same year. [The article “Über die scenischen Formen Shakespeare’s in ihrem Verhältnis zur Bühne seiner Zeit” was printed in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 26 (1891), pp. 131-149.]

(7) May 8, 1891. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Enclosing the manuscript of the lecture.

(8) May 26, 1891. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Concerning the lecture (as referred to above).

(9) July 31, 1891. Postcard from Munich.

German.

Concerning his lecture (as above).

(10) March 16, 1897. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Would like to elaborate on the entry on La Motte-Fouqué’s adaptation of Henry IV in his Geschichte der Shakespeareschen Dramen in Deutschland [Leipzig, 1870]. Also draws attention to his parodistic article “Das Goethe Geheimnis.”

(11) March 18, 1897. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Thanks Leo for being able to inspect a book. Then writes about an amusing letter he has had from a Hamburg bank clerk named Hamlet. [cs 613]

Y.c.1536 (1-3) GILDEMEISTER, Otto, 1823-1902

Mayor of Bremen; translator of Shakespeare, Byron, etc.

(1) June 15, 1876. Note from Bremen.

German.

Covering note, probably accompanying some book.

(2) August 7, 1879. Letter from Bremen.

German.

Declines to write obituary on Hertzberg for Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(3) May 6, 1893. Note from Bremen.

German.

Regrets not being able to contribute to Shakespeare Jahrbuch. [cs 613]

Y.c.1537 (1-8) GOSCHE, Richard, 1824-1889

Professor of Oriental Languages, Halle.

(1) June 5, 1862. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Introduces himself. General personal trivia.

(2) August 6, 1863. Letter from Halle.

German.

Will visit library in Berlin.

(3) April 11, 1866. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Asks Leo to announce his (Gosche’s) lecture.

(4) April 7, 1867. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Offers lecture for Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting.

(5) September 7, 1867. Letter from Halle.

German.

Wishes to confirm that he still has the volumes of Notes and Queries.

(6) December 20, 1867. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Returning 4 volumes of Notes and Queries. Would Leo be interested in editing one or two of Halberg’s comedies, with introductions?

(7) September 11, 1885. Letter from Halle.

German.

Is enclosing version of Shakespeare lecture for publication. [Richard Gosche’s lecture “Shakespeare’s Ideal der Gattin und Mutter” was printed in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 21 (1886), pp. 1-14.]

(8) November 29, 1885. Letter from Halle.

German.

On the publication of his Shakespeare lecture: protests against an editorial suggestion.

Y.c.1538 (1-3) GOTTSCHALL, Rudolf von, 1823-1900

Journalist. Editor, Unsere Zeit, Brockhaus Verlag.

(1) April 17, 1867. Letter from Leipzig.

German.

Announces visit to Berlin.

(2) September 22, 1877. Postcard from Leipzig.

German.

Declines invitation to contribute to Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(3) August 27, 1884. Letter from Leipzig.

German.

Enquiry whether Leo would write a Shakespeare biography (7 gatherings) for F.A. Brockhaus. [cs 613]

Y.c.1539 (1) GRAEF, Gustav, 1821-1895

Painter in Berlin.

(1) April 8, 1879. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Would prefer not to join the Shakespeare Gesellschaft. [cs 613]

Y.c.1540 (1-9) GRUBE, Max, 1854-1934

Actor and theatre director; author of theatre books.

(1) January 23, 1891. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Enquires whether Leo’s adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra is available in print or otherwise.

(2) September 30, 1891. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Antony and Cleopatra is too precious an item; a performance-reading cannot be considered before the end of the season.

(3) January 14, 1892. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Again explains that Antony and Cleopatra cannot be thought of before the end of the season, and that he has not yet had time to read Leo’s adaptation.

(4) January 2, 1893. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Thanks Leo for help.

(5) February 25, 1897. Note from Berlin.

German.

Returns books.

(6) March 6, 1897. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Has not found papers relating to La Motte-Fouqué. His adaptation [of Henry IV] is of no literary value anyway.

(7) May 15, 1897. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Reminds Leo about new adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra.

(8) August 9, 1897. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Is expecting manuscript.

(9) November 29, 1897. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Suggests cuts etc. to the adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra. [cs 613]

Y.c.1541 (1-2) GRUNERT, Karl, 1810-1869

Actor in Stuttgart; author.

(1) February 24, 1866. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Presents letter of introduction from his colleague Rüthling. Is at present guest-acting in Berlin (e.g. as Oberförster in Die Jäger and as Kohlhaas), but will be acting Shakespearean characters in Königsberg. Will call on Leo in person.

(2) March 2, [1866], note from Berlin.

German.

Thanks Leo for his visit; offers theatre tickets for a performance of Die Jäger on Saturday, March 3. [cs 613]

Y.c.1542 (1-3) HAGEN, Ernst August, 1797-1880

Geheimrat, Professor of Art History in Königsberg.

(1) December 25, 1879. Letter from Königsberg.

German.

Was flattered to notice his name mentioned in the last issue of Shakespeare Jahrbuch, and now offers an article for publication.

(2) December 31, 1879. Letter from Königsberg.

German.

Insists on early publication of the article, as he is 83 years old and might only live to see the next volume in print.

(3) January 4, 1880. Letter from Königsberg.

German.

Is sorry to give such trouble. Insists on uncut publication of the piece. [The article in question (“Shakespeare und Königsberg”) was printed at once, in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 15 (1880), pp. 325-338. But Hagen died before the volume was published. The letter of December 31, 1879, is printed, with comments, in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 15 (1880), p. 338.] [cs 613]

Y.c.1543 (1-6) HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS, James Orchard, 1820-1889 (1) March 25, 1869. Letter from London.

English.

Thanks Leo for copy of Index to S. Walker’s A critcal examination of the text of Shakespeare.

(2) February 23, 1881. Letter from Brighton.

English.

Sends thanks for a pamphlet on Ovid. Invites Leo to stay in his house when he comes to England.

(3) May 19, 1883. Note from Brighton.

English.

Again thanks Leo for an (unidentified) offprint, but points out that he cannot read German.

(4) June 7, 1883. Letter from Brighton.

English.

Is sending his third edition.

(5) May 15, 1885. Letter from Brighton.

English.

Thanks Leo for a list of readings. But has now turned his attention to biographical matters.

(6) July 19, 1885. Letter from Brighton.

English.

Expresses thanks for copy of Leo’s Shakespeare Notes; offers to send a copy of his Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare. [cs 613]

Y.c.1544 (1) HALM, Karl Felix Ritter von, 1809-1882

Librarian in Munich.

(1) March 17, 1869. Letter from Munich.

German.

Official thanks of the Bavarian court and state library for Leo’s Index to Sidney Walker’s A critical examination of the text of Shakespeare. [cs 613]

Y.c.1545 (1) HAUPT, Rudolph Friedrich Moriz, 1808-1874

Professor of Classics in Berlin.

(1) June 23, 1864. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Thanks Leo for a present [book or offprint?]. [cs 613]

Y.c.1546 (1-4) HEBLER, Carl, 1821-1898

Professor of Philosophy in Berne, Switzerland.

(1) March 10, 1880. Letter from Berne (Switzerland).

German.

Declines invitation to contribute to Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(2) November 7, 1893. Letter from Berne.

German.

On his (Hebler’s) study on Hamlet, which he did not dare to offer to the Shakespeare Jahrbuch because it contradicts the views of Bening [?].

(3) May 21, 1894. Postcard from Berne.

German.

Again apologizes for not being able to contribute to the Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(4) July 6, 1897. Postcard from Berne.

German.

Arranging to meet in Berne. [cs 613]

Y.c.1547 (1-2) HERTSLET, William Lewis, 1839-1898

Financial journalist and author of Der Treppenwitz der Weltgeschichte (1882).

(1) September 26, 1886. Note from Berlin.

German.

Begs to borrow, for a few days, The Learning of Shakespeare by Farmer.

(2) September 27, 1886. Note from Berlin.

German.

Wonders if there is a German Shakespeare society, and if so, where it is based. [cs 613]

Y.c.1548 (1-3) HERTZBERG, Wilhelm Adolf Boguslaw, 1813-1879

School Director in Bremen; translator of Shakespeare and Chaucer.

(1) June 5, 1872. Letter from Bremen.

German.

Thanks Leo for letter. Has been very busy, but has read Leo’s Seele nach dem Tod with great interest. Leo’s translation seems (as far as Hertzberg can judge without knowing the original) “verdienstlich.” But he advises him to avoid certain elisions: “Sie würden gut thun, wenn Sie die [der?] Elision (richtiger Apokope) eines Schluß-E nach einer litera muta und vor einem Konsonanten sich möglichst enthielten. Für mein Ohr wenigstens entspringt daraus eine unerträgliche Härte. Von der Synkope (S. 80): “eck'g'r Anapäst” nehme ich an, daß sie beabsichtigt ist, sonst würde sie eine metrische Ohrfeige thun.” ['You would do well to refrain if possible from eliding (...) a final e following a litera muta and preceding a consonant. To my ear, at least, it sounds unbearably harsh. I assume that the syncope (p. 80), “eck'g'r” is intentional or else it would be a metrical box on the ears.']

(2) May 13, 1874. Letter from Bremen.

German.

Thanks Leo for hospitality and reports on the rest of his visit to Berlin.

(3) September 15, 1878. Letter from Bremen.

German.

Thanks Leo for copy of an unidentified publication. Will write later after he has had time to read it; at the moment he is busy marking no fewer than 42 Abitur essays. [cs 613]

Y.c.1549 (1) HETTNER, Hermann Julius Theodor, 1821-1882

Professor, literary historian.

(1) December 28, 1879. Letter from Dresden.

German.

Declines to write obituary on Kreyssig. He hardly knew the man, and would not like simply to review his book on Shakespeare. Hopes to see Leo at the next Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting. [cs 613]

Y.c.1550 (1) HETTSTEDT, Louise (Beil), 1829-1893

Shakespearean actress.

(1) June 22, 1877. Letter from Weimar.

German.

Sends him her photograph and wishes him good luck with Shakespeare.

There is an obituary of Louise Hettstedt in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 29/30 (1894), pp. 276-277. [cs 613]

Y.c.1551 (1-2) HEYD, Wilhelm von, 1823-1906

Librarian, Stuttgart.

(1) March 21, 1890. Letter from Stuttgart.

German.

MS. Hist. A. 42 (Stammbuch) will be sent to the Königliche Bibliothek, Berlin, where Leo can use it and make a photo of a Stammbuchblatt [for his article “Rosenkrantz und Guldenstern”].

(2) June 8, 1890. Postcard from Stuttgart.

German.

Thanks Leo for note on the Stammbuchblatt. [Facsimiles of the Stammbuchblatt referred to were printed in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 25 (1890), p. 280 and 283.] [cs 613]

Y.c.1552 (1-4) HOFMANN, August Wilhelm von, 1818-1892

Professor of Chemistry, Berlin.

(1) April 9, 1877. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Sends translation of Lord Dufferin’s Letters from High Latitudes.

(2) December 26, 1887. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Requests Leo to identify Shakespeare quotations.

(3) March 16, 1890. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Another request to identify a Shakespeare quotation.

(4) March 23, 1890. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Sends thanks for identification of Shakespeare quotations. [cs 613]

Y.c.1553 (1) HOHENHAUSEN, Elise Felicitas Friederike, Freiin von, 1812-1899

Writer.

(1) N.d. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Letter of condolence. Suggests that Leo write an autobiography. She herself intends to write on celebrities of Berlin, and comments that “Shakespeare-Leo” surely belongs to the first rank of these. [cs 613]

Y.c.1554 (1-2) HOPFEN, Hans 1835-1904

Writer.

(1 a-b) July 4, 1881. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Invitation to beer party.

(Envelope may belong to another letter.)

(2) March 11, 1883. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Note of apology. [cs 613]

Y.c.1555 (1-2) HUBBARD, James Mascarene, 1836-1932

Librarian in Boston.

(1) February 18, 1879. Letter from Boston, Mass.

English.

Is sending the first part of his Shakespeare Catalogue. [Referring to Catalogue of the Barton collection, Boston Public Library. In two parts: pt 1. Shakespeare’s work and Shakespeariana... [1878]-1888.]

(2) June 18, 1890. Letter from Boston, Mass.

English.

Thanks Leo for his paper on the “Autograph of Rosenkrantz und Guldenstern.” He has written a brief account of it for the New York Nation. [cs 613]

Y.c.1556 (1) HÜLSEN, Botho von, 1815-1886

Generalintendantur der königlichen Schauspiele Berlin.

(1) January 6, 1870. Letter from Berlin, with seal.

German.

Acceptance of Leo’s stage adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra for performance by the Royal Theatre. [cs 613]

Y.c.1557 (1-13) INGLEBY, Clement Mansfield 1823-1886

British Shakespeare scholar.

(1) May 22, 1877. Letter from Birmingham.

English.

Hopes that Leo will visit him in Ilford. Discusses conjectures in Romeo and Juliet (runawayes eyes).

(2) May 22, 1877. Letter from Ilford, Essex.

English.

Expects a visit from Leo in Ilford.

(3) May 29, 1877. Postcard from Ilford.

English.

Asks for a clarification.

(4) June 20, 1877. Letter from Ilford.

English.

Sends his photo. Thanks Leo for books: Leo’s volume of poems, Schmidt’s Comus and Leo’s article on “Shakespeare’s Frauen-Ideale.” Has sent him his 2 volumes, Shakespeare Hermeneutics and Shakespeare - Man and Book. Discusses “sledded” in Hamlet. Promises a short article for Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Has seen “Prof. Corson of Cornell University.” On differences with Furnivall.

(5 a-b) December 8, 1877. Letter from Ilford.

English.

Acknowledges receipt of prospectus and proof of Leo’s edition of [North’s] Plutarch. Offers some corrections of Leo’s English.

(6) June 17, 1878. Letter from Ilford.

English.

Is leaving for Chateau d'Oex nr. Lausanne. “... I believe the German brain (as I once told Bodenstedt) is another and a superior article compared to anything of English manufacture...”

(7) August 22, 1878. Letter from Ilford.

English.

Thanks Leo for copy of his Plutarch.

(8) October 2, 1878. Letter from Ilford.

English.

Suggests that Leo visit him with no formality.

(9) October 28, 1878. Letter from Ilford.

English.

Is sorry not to have seen Leo. Asks for introductions to “eligible” people in Hanover, for his daughter. In Lausanne bought an “unknown” edition of Shakespeare printed for Billy Jones, 1826.

(10) November 27, 1878. Letter from Hanover by C. Rose Ingleby, his daughter.

English.

She has to leave for England, having studied German. and Music for 2 months, and cannot make use of his introductions.

At the end is a note by Leo, November 28, 1878.

(11) August 31, 1883. Letter from Ilford.

English.

Conjectures on Vllorxa.

(12) May 30, 1884. Postcard from Ilford.

English.

Will be in Valentines, Ilford, in June, then in Norfolk.

(13) July 21, 1885. Letter from King’s Lynn.

English.

Sends thanks for and comments on Leo’s Shakespeare Notes. [cs 613]

Y.c.1558 (1) INGLEBY, Holcombe, 1854-1926 (1) June 8, 1890. Letter from Eastbourne.

English.

Thanks Leo for his essay “Rosenkrantz und Guldenstern.” [cs 613]

Y.c.1559 (1) JENKINS, Mrs.

Wife of Henry Michael Jenkins (1840-1886), Member of Parliament and writer.

(1) May 22, 1877. Letter from South Kensington.

English.

Regrets that her husband, being on the Continent, cannot see Leo to introduce him to “English Parliamentary life.” [cs 613]

Y.c.1560 (1) JODRELL (?), H.R. (1) January 31, 1866. Letter from Manchester.

English.

Describes his collection of Shakespeare illustrations, originally begun with a view “to form[ing] an illustrated Shakspere.” “... I have gathered records of the several transmutations, which have taken place from time to time on the boards of our theatres, whereby the old practice of paying no heed to the customs, dress etc. of the times of the several dramas have gradually yielded to a more general knowledge and acquaintance with the periods which ought to be depicted and portrayed. You Germans have done much in the furtherance of this laudable pursuit. Thro’ you[r] Schlegels, Tieck besides a mighty host, you have in a degree indoctrinated the english mind to weigh well the thoughts of our mighty genius, and by your scenic representations you have endeavoured to vivify the letters he has depicted, still much is to be done.” He summarizes his aims as follows:

“1° To give a consecutive record of Shaksperian Actors 2° To furnish the recorded various modes of representing the dramas on the Stage 3° To assist Actors and Illustrators by shewing them what has already been done by their predecessors. 4° To afford a history of the Art of illustrating 5° To depict the times, as far as practicable, in which the dramas have been placed by giving portraits, views, armour” etc. etc.

[cs 613]

Y.c.1561 (1-5) KARL ALEXANDER, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 1818-1901 (1) August 12, 1868. Letter from Weimar.

German.

Acknowledges printed version of Leo’s lecture on Shakespeare’s ideal of womanhood and regrets not having been present at the meeting of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft at which it was delivered [published as Shakespeare’s Frauen-Ideale (Halle, 1868)].

(2) November 15, 1869. Letter from Weimar (Belvedere).

German.

Thanks Leo for copy of adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra, which he has ordered to be performed in his [Weimar] theatre.

(3) March 31, 1878 (?). Letter from Weimar.

German.

Acknowledges Leo’s package and visit.

(4) July 23, 1878. Letter from Weimar (Belvedere).

German.

Thanks Leo for his important contribution to Shakespeare studies, and regrets not having had an opportunity to receive him in person.

(5) June 5, 1888. Letter from Weimar (Belvedere).

German.

Sends thanks for printed version of Leo’s lecture delivered at the Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting; regrets not having been present in person. [“Shakespeare und Goethe,” printed in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 24 (1889), pp. 9-23.] [cs 613]

Y.c.1562 (1-8) KLUGE, Friedrich, 1856-1926

Professor of German.

(1) N.d. Letter from Jena.

German.

The writer’s paper is in print, and he would appreciate Leo’s corrections to the proofs. Lectures on Shakespeare by the late ten Brink, manuscripts of which have been obtained from Mrs. ten Brink, are incomplete (conclusion missing) and written in a hand difficult to read. He leaves it to Leo to decide whether they should be printed.

(2) January 18, 1892. Postcard from Jena.

German.

Apologies for not being able to finish an article for Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(3) February 23, 1892. Postcard from Meran.

German.

Will write obituary for Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(4) May 15, 1892. Postcard from Jena.

German.

Will send manuscript of his lecture delivered at the Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting for possible publication in the Jahrbuch. Also reports that the family of the late ten Brink would permit the publication of some of ten Brink’s Shakespeare lectures and has asked him to negotiate an honorarium.

(5) October 2, 1892. Postcard from Jena.

German.

Response to Leo’s apparent reluctance concerning the ten Brink honorarium. Suggests that an obituary of Reinhold Köhler [librarian of Shakespeare Gesellschaft] be published in the Jahrbuch.

(6) October 18, 1892. Postcard from Jena.

German.

None of the missing parts of ten Brink’s manuscripts have been found.

(7) January 9, 1893. Postcard from Jena.

German.

Advance notice of the obituary of R. Köhler. Further problems concerning the ten Brink papers. [A lecture manuscript by the late Prof. B. ten Brink was edited, by Friedrich Kluge, for Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 28 (1893), pp. 72-89. The bulk of the Shakespeare papers left by ten Brink, however, were printed as a separate volume.]

(8) February 22, 1893. Postcard from Jena.

German.

Has sent the obituary of R. Köhler to the printer’s. Will move to Freiburg (Baden), where he has been offered a professorship. [See Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 28 (1893), p. 342.] [cs 613]

Y.c.1563 (1-14) KÖHLER, Reinhold, 1830-1892

Librarian, Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft.

(1) May 22, 1877. Note from Weimar.

German.

Enclosing his photograph.

(2) December 22, 1880. Note from Weimar.

German.

Response to Leo’s order for library books.

(3) October 16, 1881. Postcard from Weimar.

German.

Gives advance notice of manuscript of the catalogue of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft library, to be printed in Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(4) February 14, 1882. Letter from Weimar.

German.

Covering letter for catalogue manuscript.

(5) July 23, 1882. Postcard from Friedrichroda.

German.

Recommends “W.” for corrections.

(6) March 4, 1885. Note from Weimar written on an envelope.

German.

Note accompanying manuscripts.

(7) November 17, 1885. Postcard from Weimar.

German.

Will acquire MacDonald’s Hamlet [for Shakespeare library] provided it is not too expensive, as was Lady Martin’s book Some Female Characters of Shakespeare, which he would never have acquired had he known the price beforehand.

(8) November 20, 1885. Note from Weimar.

German.

Note accompanying the book by Lady Martin and two publications of the Clifton Shakespeare Society.

(9) February 8, 1887. Note from Weimar.

German.

Accompanying library books.

(10) March 29, 1888. Visiting card from Weimar.

German.

Sends two notes for possible inclusion in Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(11) April 29, 1889. Postcard from Weimar.

German.

Note concerning index of Jahrbuch.

(12) April 30, 1889. Postcard from Weimar.

German.

Note concerning library books.

(13) May 2, 1889. Letter from Weimar.

German.

Note concerning library books.

(14) March 3, 1890. Visiting card from Weimar.

German.

Sent along with list of Shakespeareans deceased in 1889 (for Shakespeare Jahrbuch). [cs 613]

Y.c.1564 (1-3) KÖLBING, Eugen, 1846-1899

Professor of English. Editor of Englische Studien.

(1) March 23, 1877. Postcard from Breslau.

German.

Suggests that a call for donations for a Shakespeare monument be published in Englische Studien.

(2) February 22, 1885. Postcard from Breslau. (Post-marked February 21, 1885.)

German.

Acknowledges receipt of a study by Doyle.

(3) June 9, 1890. Postcard from Breslau.

German.

Acknowledgment. [cs 613]

Y.c.1565 (1) KÖSTLIN, Karl Reinhold von, 1819-1894

Professor in Tübingen.

(1) March 17, 1890. Letter from Tübingen.

German.

Declines invitation to write on Rümelin, but points out other possible authors (e.g., Professor Klaiber in Stuttgart and above all Dr. Wilhelm Lang) [see also W. Lang’s letters below (Y.c.1568 (1-2))]. [cs 613]

Y.c.1566 (1) KOPPEL, Richard (1) June 19, 1877. Letter from Dresden.

German.

Offers copy of his study on Shakespeare [probably Textkritische Studien über Shakespeares Richard III. und König Lear (Dresden, 1877)]. [cs 613]

Y.c.1567 (1-2) KREYSSIG, Friedrich Alexander Theodor, 1818-1879

School director in Kassel and Frankfurt, Shakespeare scholar.

(1) November 8, 1877. Letter from Frankfurt.

German.

Will send his photograph as requested by Leo.

(2) February 13, 1878. Note from Frankfurt.

German.

Enclosing photograph. Owing to other duties of a pressing nature he has neglected Shakespeare recently. Photograph not present. [cs 613]

Y.c.1568 (1-2) LANG, Wilhelm, 1832-1915

Professor in Stuttgart.

(1) March 12, 1890. Letter from Stuttgart.

German.

Would rather not write an obituary on Rümelin for Shakespeare Jahrbuch; cannot give assessment of his importance for Shakespeare studies. Recommends either Prof. Köstlin or Dr. H. Fischer of Tübingen. For Köstlin’s negative reply see Y.c.1565 (1) above.

(2) March 23, 1890. Note from Stuttgart.

German.

Agrees to write 6 pages for Shakespeare Jahrbuch after all, provided he may have until the end of April. [At last Leo himself composed the obituary of Gustav Rümelin (printed in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 25 (1890), pp. 301-306), partly drawing on Waizäcker’s obituary in Schwäbische Kronik, and with an acknowledgement to W. Lang for having pointed out the latter.] [cs 613]

Y.c.1569 (1-20) L'ARRONGE, Adolph, 1838-1908

Dramatist, theatre director in Berlin (from 1878).

(1-2) N.d. Two notes on visiting cards.

German.

Accepting invitations.

(3) December 17, 1877. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Referring to previous night’s performance, which Leo had attended.

(4) February 18, 1878. Letter from Breslau.

German.

Has read Leo’s play [Hochverräter]. Offers with some reluctance to have it performed. [Leo’s comedy Ein Hochverräter (1875) was published under the pseudonym August Olfer.]

(5) March 11, 1878. Letter from Breslau.

German.

First performance of Leo’s play Ein Hochverräter will be next Saturday.

(6) March 13, 1878. Letter from Breslau.

German.

First performance delayed; will now be on March 19. Urges Leo to be present.

(7) November 20, 1878. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Apologies for not being able to visit Leo.

(8) January 21, 1879. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Expresses regrets; is not able to acept invitation.

(9) March 11, 1879. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Invitation.

(10) April 17, 1879. Letter from Berlin.

German.

L'Arronge becomes member of Shakespeare Gesellschaft.

(11) June 16, 1879. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

His wife will not be able to join him in accepting an invitation.

(12) December 19, 1879. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Invitation.

(13) February 18, 1880. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Invitation.

(14) April 2, 1880. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Announces social call next Sunday.

(15) April 2, 1880. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Visit postponed to Monday.

(16) April 1, 1881. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Apologies.

(17) May 14, 1881. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Announces birth of a daughter.

(18) September 13, 1881. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Invitation.

(19) October 19, 1891. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Letter of condolence (on death of Leo’s daughter).

(20) April 13, 1880. Postcard to Frau Elisabeth Leo from Berlin.

German. [cs 613]

Y.c.1570 (1-4) LAZARUS, [Moritz], 1824-1903

Professor of Philosophy, aesthetician.

(1) January 25, 1877. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Expresses thanks for volume of [Leo’s] poems.

(2) February 2, 1881. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Concerning a spurious recommendation.

(3) January 29, 1885. Note from Berlin.

German.

Would like to borrow Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Clarke, Shakespeare Concordance.

(4) January 12, 1894. Postcard signed “Leibniz” [= Lazarus], to Prof. A. von Heyden, from Berlin

German.

Meeting of Rütli postponed. [cs 613]

Y.c.1571 (1-9) LEO, Friedrich August, 1820-1898 (1) N.d., [1877]. Draft letter from London to [John] Maxwell

English.

Leo has heard from Dr. Lawrence Hamilton that J.M. [and his wife, Miss Braddon] will not be in town before he leaves England. Leo is sorry not to be seeing them. [cs 613]

(2) May 23, [1877]. Draft letter from London to [Ingleby]

English.

Leo apologizes for not being able to come today but will leave Liverpool station by the 4:47 p.m. train the next day to call on him. [See letter from Ingleby to Leo of May 22, 1877, to which this one would seem to be a response.] [cs 613]

(3) December 30, 1878. Letter from Berlin [to H.H. Furness].

English.

Apologizes for not having written for a long time. He has been in France and England. Is now working again and will send some result of it soon. His friend Professor Leyden, who intends to lecture on women’s education, wonders what material might be available in America. Wonders if Furness could send reports, essays, etc., on what and how women study and on what possibilities they have of their applying their studies in practice. [cs 1115]

(4) November 12, 1879. Letter from Berlin [to H.H. Furness].

English.

Leo has taken over the editorship of Shakespeare Jahrbuch from Elze. Hopes that Furness will contribute something to next year’s issue (“it would not be the first essay written in English”). Leo has obtained a copy of [North’s] Plutarch, 1579. Has given a lecture entitled “Shakespeare, the people and the fools” at the Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting in Weimar; he is enclosing a copy. His copy of Furness’s Epitome has some parts missing; asks Furness to supply these so that the complete work can be bound. [cs 1115]

(5) April 4, 1880. Letter from Berlin [to H.H. Furness].

English.

Has been ill and overworked editing the Shakespeare Jahrbuch; is sending pre-publication excerpts from it. The copy of North’s Plutarch had cost him 3 guineas. [See Furness’s reply April 29, 1880.] [cs 1115]

(6) April 14, 1880. Letter from Berlin [to H.H. Furness].

English.

Letter of introduction for Mr. F. van den Wyngaert. Leo has asked him to call on Furness in Philadelphia and has given him a box of stamps for Furness’s son. This year’s Shakespeare Jahrbuch is finished. [cs 1115]

(7) December 18, 1880. Letter from Berlin [to H.H. Furness].

English.

Leo is sending stamps for Furness’s son, collected since Mr. van den Wyngaert’s visit. [cs 1115]

(8) July 28, 1882. Postcard from Berlin to F.G. Fleay.

English.

Says that he will not be able to include Fleay’s article because it is not in German. [cs 1119]

(9) April 26, 1892. Draft letter to Doctor [Furnivall].

English.

Life is too short to spend it in petty rancour. [See letter from Furnivall, April 25, 1892, Y.c.1531 (10).] [cs 613]

The following letters from Leo to Furness are in the Furness Library, University of Pennsylvania: December 30, 1878. Letter from Berlin. November 12, 1879. Letter from Berlin. April 4, 1880. Letter from Berlin. April 14, 1880. Letter from Berlin. December 18, 1880. Letter from Berlin.

The only connection between these and the Folger letters from Furness to Leo is to be found in the one from Leo, April 4, 1880, and Furness’s response to it of April 29, 1880. Leo’s letter of April 4, 1880, is a reply to a letter from Furness (Furness Library) dated March 10, 1880.

Y.c.1572 (1) LESSMANN, Otto, 1844-1918

Editor, Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung. Musician.

(1) December 3, 1887. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Is sending a clipping “on the most recent Shakespeare discovery” from the Frankfurter Zeitung. Complains about offensive behavior of one “Sch.” [cs 613]

Y.c.1573 (1-9) LINDAU, Paul, 1839-1919

Journalist, Editor of journal Nord und Süd

(1) January 1, 1873. Visiting card from Berlin.

German.

Apology for being unable to accept invitation.

(2) March 25, 1873. Letter from Berlin.

German.

General matters. Reports on success of “M u. M” [?] in Dresden and Berlin.

(3) April 18, 1880. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Generally negative response to translations submitted by Leo for Nord und Süd.

(4) May 10, 1880. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Submitted manuscript returned.

(5) December 24, 1884. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Vaguely promises to make Shakespearean studies known through his journal.

(6) November 1, 1886. Letter (typed) from Berlin.

German.

Declines to publish a review of Leo’s volume of poems.

(7) April 14, 1890. Postcard (typed) from Berlin.

German.

Does not know Frau Artot’s Paris address.

(8) June 6, 1890. Note from Berlin.

German.

(9) Oct. 19, 1891. Note from Berlin.

German.

Cs 613

Y.c. 1574 (1-4) LINDNER, Albert 1831-1888

Playwright.

(1) March 4, 1879. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Confirms that the borrowed book is in his hands.

(2) May 17, 1881. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Asks for permission to reproduce illustrations from Leo’s article in Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(3) Feb. 6, 1882. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Is unable to deliver MS. of article by Spring 1882.

(4 a-b) July 15, 1882. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Irritable reply to Leo’s reminder concerning the article. [cs 613]

Y.c.1575 (1-4) LOENING, Richard, 1848-1913

Professor of law in Jena, author of a book on Hamlet, 1893.

(1) May 3, 1893. Letter from Jena.

German.

Discusses Hamlet’s age, referring to his book and to Leo’s conflicting opinion in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 16.

(2) November 5, 1894. Postcard from Jena.

German.

Has corrected a passage in his article, concerning love/“motion of the liver,” Hamlet, II.4.100.

(3) November 2, 1897. Letter from Jena.

German.

Reluctantly agrees to attempt a review of Castle’s book.

(4) December 13, 1897. Postcard from Jena.

German.

Intends to read the book by Castle and will then (perhaps) write a review. [Loening’s review of E.J. Castle, Shakespeare, Bacon, Jonson and Greene: A Study (London, 1897) was published in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 34 (1898), pp. 390-393.] [cs 613]

Y.c.1576 (1) LOEPER, Johann Ludwig Gustav von, 1822-1891

Goethe scholar.

(1) August 2, 1888. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Thanks Leo for a copy of his printed lecture on “Goethe and Shakespeare,” which has inspired him to become a member of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft. [cs 613]

Y.c.1577 (1-2) LOFTUS, Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer, 1817-1904

British Ambassador, Berlin.

(1) January 26, 1869. Note of acknowledgment from Berlin.

English.

Thanks for Leo’s adaptation of Coriolanus.

(2) March 3, 1869. Note of acknowledgment from Berlin.

English. [cs 613]

Y.c.1578 (1) LOREBURN, Robert Threshie Reid, Earl, 1846-1923

British Member of Parliament.

(1) June 17, [1884]. Letter signed R.T. Reid from London, House of Commons.

English.

Has arranged for Miss Leo to visit the ladies’ gallery of the House of Commons. [cs 613]

Y.c.1579 (1) LOWE, Charles, 1848-1931

Times correspondent, Berlin.

(1) April 17, 1889. Note from Berlin.

English.

Lunch invitation to meet Mr. Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry. [cs 613]

Y.c.1580 (1) LOWNDES, Charles (1) June 11, 1890. Postcard from Stratford-upon-Avon.

English.

Acknowledgment of receipt of a presentation copy of Leo’s essay “Rosenkrantz und Guldenstern” to Flower (written in Flower’s absence by Charles Lowndes). [cs 613]

Y.c.1581 (1) MACCOLL, Norman, 1843-1904

Editor of Athenaeum, London.

(1) April 5, 1878. Letter from London.

English.

Refers to “today’s Times” as reporting on a “Shakespeare album” sent to Birmingham by Leo and asks for more information about it. [cs 613]

Y.c.1582 (1) MACDONALD, John C. (?)

Working for The Times, London.

(1) May 28, 1877. Letter from London.

English.

Offers to arrange a visit to the Times printing office. [cs 613]

Y.c.1583 (1-3) MALET, Sir Edward Baldwin, 1837-1908

British Ambassador, Berlin.

(1 a-b) January 18, 1889. Letter from Berlin.

English.

Promises support for the aims of the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft.

(2) February 5, 1889. Letter from Berlin.

English.

Acknowledgment.

(3) June 6, 1890. Letter from Berlin.

English.

Acknowledges receipt of Leo’s essay on “Rosenkrantz und Guldenstern.” [cs 613]

Y.c.1584 (1-2) MAXWELL, John, 1824-1895

Publisher, husband of novelist Miss Bradden.

(1) May 24, 1877. Letter from Hampshire.

English.

Maxwell and Mrs. Maxwell are absent from London but hope that Leo can visit them in Richmond after June 6, when they will return.

(2) June 30, 1880. Letter from Richmond.

English.

Invitation to dinner. [cs 613]

Y.c.1585 (1-4) MEISSNER, Alfred, 1822-1885

Poet.

(1) November 13, 1882. Letter from Bregenz.

German.

Promises article on Pericles for Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Mentions his earlier writings on Shakespeare’s biography, on Massinger and on Davenant. Asks for copy of the latest Shakespeare Jahrbuch. (Meissner describes himself as a “modest scholar”).

(2) November 18, 1882. Postcard from Bregenz.

German.

Thanks Leo for Jahrbuch.

(3) December 12, 1882. Postcard from Bregenz.

German.

Wonders if his article is acceptable. [A. Meissner’s article “Pericles, Fürst von Tyrus auf der Münchener Bühne” was published in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 18 (1883), pp. 209-217.]

(4) N.d. Cover addressed to Leo.

German. [cs 613]

Y.c.1586 (1-2) MELLIN, Gustav Henrik 1803-1876. (1) Title page Fremlingen från Als with autograph inscription to Leo on verso, 1848(?).

Danish.

(2) Also, envelope. Y.c.1587 (1-3) MORGAN, James Appleton, 1845-1928

President, Shakespeare Society of New York.

(1) July 20, 1886. Letter from New York.

English.

Complains about the description of the Shakespeare Society of New York as “Baconian” in Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Attached is Leo’s rejoinder. [This letter is printed, with comment, in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 22 (1887), p. 343.]

(2) December 17, 1889. Letter from New York.

English.

Announces that Leo has been elected honorary member, replacing the late Professor Elze.

(3) June 22, 1890. Letter from New York.

English.

Acknowledges receipt of Leo’s essay “Rosenkrantz und Guldenstern;” suggests note about it in Shakespeareana. [cs 613]

Y.c.1588 (1-3) NEUBAUER, A[dolf?] 1832-1907 (1) November 3, 1883. Letter from Oxford to Miss [Leo?].

German.

Response to her “nervous” letter. Tried to see [Miss? Mrs?] “W.G.” in Paris, but only reached her by letter; is enclosing her reply. Will put in a good word [for Miss Leo] if he has a chance. Neubauer himself has decided to stay [in Oxford?] till summer; he has to finish the University Library catalogue. He does not yet know where he will go next, but will leave England and abandon his literary career. He needs to be alone and will break off all correspondence. He has given up Italy. Greetings to her parents.

(2) January 28, 1888. Postcard from Oxford.

German.

Recommends a graduate student from Cambridge, who will also bring a photograph. Suggests meeting in Rome.

(3) February 8, 1888. Postcard from Oxford.

German.

Reports on a letter from Mr. Strong. Points out that he has not seen Leo for five years. [cs 613]

Y.c.1589 (1) NICHOLSON, Brinsley, 1824-1892 (1) August 30, 1881. Letter from London.

English.

Advertising a reprint of the work by Reginald Scot. [cs 613]

Y.c.1590 (1) NICHOLSON, Edward William Byron, 1849-1912

Librarian, Bodleian.

(1) June 9, 1890. Letter from Oxford.

English.

Acknowledges receipt of Leo’s essay “Rosenkrantz und Guldenstern.” [cs 613]

Y.c.1591 (1) NORRIS, Joseph Parker, 1847-1916 (1) April 30, 1885. Letter from Philadelphia.

English.

Acknowledges receipt of 2 pamphlets, reminds Leo of his having sent him his paper on the Death Mask and reports on Joseph Crosby’s imprisonment. [cs 613]

Y.c.1592 (1-24) OECHELHÄUSER, Wilhelm, 1820-1902

Businessman, Member of Parliament, effective founder of the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft.

(1) [N.d.] Visiting card from Berlin.

German.

Regrets not to be able to accept invitation.

(2) March 28, 1887. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Regrets.

(3) April 17, 1888. Card from Heidelberg.

German.

Asks what vacancies on the board of trustees [of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft] have to be filled.

(4) December 4, 1888. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Regrets.

(5) June 11, 1890. Postcard from Niederwalldrof.

German.

Acknowledgment.

(6) February 12, 1891. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Suggests that the main lecture at the Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting in Weimar should be on “Shakespeare on the Weimar Stage” and that Suphan should be asked to deliver it, since A. Kohn [Cohn] has declined. [Bernhard Suphan, director of the Weimar Goethe archive. (Cf. his letters below.) He had delivered a keynote lecture at the 1889 meeting, entitled “Shakespeare im Anbruch der klassischen Zeit unserer Literatur” (printed in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 25 (1890) pp. 1-20). But he did not present the one suggested by Oechelhäuser.]

(7) February 20, 1891. Letter from Berlin.

German.

The main lecture will be by Genée, on stage productions of Shakespeare’s plays. [Published as “Über die scenischen Formen Shakespeares in ihrem Verhältnis zur Bühne seiner Zeit” in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 26 (1891), pp. 131-149.]

(8) April 8, 1891. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Concerning the Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(9) July 21, 1891. Letter from Bad Gastein.

German.

Concerning the Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Intends to write a short article “contra Genée,” in favour of modern productions.[1] Suggests that, besides philological treatises, the Jahrbuch should also contain excerpts from original texts, for instance a complete collection of Shakespeare sententiae and ‘quotations’,[1] since Büchmann [Geflügelte Worte] is very incomplete on Shakespeare.

Notes.

[1]

Published as “Zur Sceniergungsfrage” in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 27 (1892), pp. 108-114.

[2]

The suggestion made here and discussed in the following letters was eventually realized by Leo himself, who published a one hundred page collection of Shakespeare sententiae and quotations as “Geflügelte Worte und volkstümlich gewordene Aussprüche aus Shakespeares dramatischen Werken” in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 27 (1892), pp. 4-107, with an appendix ibid., pp. 311-314.

(10) July 31, 1891. Letter from Niederwalldorf.

German.

Elaborates in detail his ideas on a collection of Shakespearean sententiae (“Geflügelte Worte”).

(11) Aug. 15, 1891. Letter from Niederwalldorf.

German.

Further discussion of the format of the “Geflügelte Worte.” Is delighted that Leo has taken an interest in it.

(12) Oct. 18, 1891. Postcard from Dessau.

German.

Congratulations. Will send the annual report of Shakespeare Gesellschaft.

(13) Oct. 20, 1891. Letter from Dessau.

German.

Letter of condolence.

(14) Nov. 9, 1891. Letter from Dessau.

German.

Agrees with Leo’s treatment of “Geflügelte Worte.”

(15) March 15, 1892. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Has read MS. of “Geflügelte Worte” with pleasure.

(16) March 18, 1892. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Returning to “Geflügelte Worte:” Oechelhäuser is somewhat alarmed by the fact that, contrary to his earlier suggestion that only 12 or 16 plays be considered, Leo has indeed included all 36 plays, and that the “Geflügelte Worte” from some of them are by no means complete.

(17) April 28, 1892. Letter from Dessau.

German.

Reports on Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting in Weimar. Details concerning annual report. Recommends expending some effort in recruiting new members. Mentions the possibility of printing ten Brink’s[1] papers in the Jahrbuch.

Notes.

[1]

Cf. correspondence with Friedrich Kluge above.

(18) Oct. 20, 1892. Letter from Dessau.

German.

Accepting a[n unidentified] proposal.

(19) January 23, 1893. Note from Berlin (Hotel Bristol).

German.

Responds reluctantly to the suggestion that he write an obituary on Miss Kemble, whom he met only briefly. - Notes that the Grand Duchess has recommended Bulthaupt. Mentions letter from a mad professor that Lancelot Gobbo derives from Dante, Inferno, III.

(20) February 13, 1893. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Asks for book on Fanny Kemble. Will try to write the obituary.

(21) February 20, 1893. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Returns books and sends obituary of Fanny Kemble. [See Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 28 (1893), p. 345.]

(22) February 12, 1894. Letter from Dessau.

German.

Is sending an article by Dr. Traumann for possible publication in Shakespeare Jahrbuch. [Printed as Ernst Traumann, “Die künstlerische Arbeit in Shakespeare Othello,” Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 31 (1895), pp. 231-262.]

(23) March 15, 1894. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Note referring to and commenting on a[n unidentifiable] proposal.

(24 a-b) February 15, 1899. Letter from Karlsruhe to Generalarzt Dr. [?]

German.

General matters and medical advice. [cs 613]

Y.c.1593 (1) PFEIL-BURGHAUSZ, Friedrich Ludwig Graf von, 1803-1896 (1) February 3, 1894. From Hirschberg, signed by L[udwig] Gr[af] Pfeil-Burghausz

German.

His son has told him that Leo is a great Shakespeare expert. Offers “a characterization of one of the most excellent works of the greatest dramatic poet.” As the writer is 90 years old and his eyesight is failing, he can no longer enjoy theatre performances.

The letter, except for the signature, is not in the sender’s hand.

Cs 613

Y.c.1594 (1) PFEIL UND KLEIN-ELLGUTH, Joachim Friedrich Graf von, 1857-1924

Explorer and author; from October 20, 1890 married to Leo’s daughter Gertrud (d. October 18, 1891) (see Introduction).

(1) March 10, 1890. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Accepts an invitation. [cs 613]

Y.c.1595 (1) PFEIL UND KLEIN-ELLGUTH, Markus Friedrich Graf von, 1859-1916

Brother of Joachim Friedrich Graf von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth (see previous page).

(1) October 3, 1890. Card from Berlin.

German.

Returns [some book?]. Regrets not to be able to accept an invitation. [cs 613]

Y.c.1596 (1-2) RANKABES, Alexandros Rizos [= Rizos Rankabes, Alexandros I.], 1810-1892 (1 a-b) January 30, 1881. Note from Berlin.

French

Apologies for not being able to pay an intended visit.

(2) August 5, 1882. Letter from Berlin.

French

Has brought, for the Shakespeare Gesellschaft, 5 pamphlets containing Greek translations of Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and Hamlet by his friend Démétrius Vikellas. [Better known as Demetrios Bikelas.] [cs 613]

Y.c.1597 (1) ROBERT-TORNOW, Walter Heinrich, 1852-1895

Librarian.

(1) June 24, 1890. Note from Berlin.

German.

Is unable to identify a verse quotation sent to him by Leo. [cs 613]

Y.c.1598 (1-17) RODENBERG, Julius, 1831-1914

Editor, Deutsches Magazin.

(1) N.d. Visiting card from Berlin.

German.

Thanks Leo for two publications.

(2) N.d. Visiting card from Berlin.

German.

Regrets not to be able to accept invitation.

(3) April 3, 1862. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Has received a contribution (manuscript?) for Leo from Grosse in Munich. Will bring it to Leo’s home.

(4) November 11, 1877. Card from Berlin.

German.

Asks to be recommended to Hepworth Dixon.

(5) January 8, 1879. Visiting card from Berlin.

German.

Invitation.

(6) February 17, 1879. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Regrets.

(7) October 24, 1883. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Unable to provide information about [unidentifiable] person.

(8) April 12, 1886. Visiting card from Berlin.

German.

Accepts invitation.

(9) January 20, 1887. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Would welcome abstract of Leo’s Shakespeare Notes.

(10) April 9, 1887. Visiting card from Berlin.

German.

Thanks Leo for an offprint.

(11) June 6, 1887. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Accepts Shakespeare Notes for publication.

(12) June 8, 1890. Visiting card from Berlin.

German.

Thanks Leo for essay on “Rosenkrantz and Guldenstern.”

(13) June 16, 1890. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Unable to answer [unidentifiable] query.

(14) December 12, 1890. Visiting card from Berlin.

German.

Congratulations on 70th birthday.

(15) July 4, 1891. Note from Berlin.

German.

Printed thanks for congratulations.

(16) October 21, 1891. Letter from Baden-Baden.

German.

Letter of condolence.

(17) February 26, 1892. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Thanks for offprint of Leo’s “Geflügelte Worte.” [cs 613]

Y.c.1599 (1) RUBINSTEIN, Anton, 1829-1894

Composer and pianist in St. Petersburg.

(1) October 31, 1885. Berlin

German.

Membership application, Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft. [cs 613]

Y.c.1600 (1) RÜMELIN, Gustav, 1815-1889

Writer, university chancellor in Tübingen, author of Shakespeare-Studien eines Realisten.

(1) November 9, 1877. Letter from Tübingen.

German.

Is sending his photograph. [cs 613]

Y.c.1601 (1-6) SACHAU, Eduard, 1845-1930

Professor of Oriental Languages.

(1) N.d. Card from Berlin [?].

German.

Regrets not to be able to recommend a young man to Lady White [for an unidentified employment]. It would be better for her to enquire at a Scottish University.

(2) N.d. [After 1875]. Note signed Eduard C. Sachau.

English.

Thanks Leo for Hunting of the Snark.

(3) N.d. [After 1875]. Letter [from Berlin?].

German.

Regrets not being able to accept an invitation. Remarks on Hunting of the Snark: the Boojum/Snark question is more serious than Leo thinks. He should ask his daughter.

(4) February 5, 1879 [?]. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Regrets not being able to come to dinner as promised. Might join them later for coffee.

(5) February 28, 1879. Postcard from Berlin.

English.

Accepts invitation.

(6) April 12, 1879. Letter from Vienna.

German.

Thanks Leo for Shakespeare Gesellschaft circular. Will consider becoming a member, but not at present, since he will be travelling to the Middle East and might be killed by Kurdish bullets. [cs 613]

Y.c.1602 (1) SALVINI, Tommaso, 1829-1916

Italian Actor.

(1) September 30, 1883. Letter from Florence.

French

Has already given permission for his essays (including reflections on his Shakespearean roles) to be translated into German. But use may be made of an article on Hamlet just published in the Italian journal Il Fanfulla della Domenica. [As editor of the Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Leo did take advantage of Salvini’s permission, though he used Salvini’s essay on King Lear, originally published in Il Fanfulla della Domenica shortly after the date of this letter (Oct. 21, 1883), rather than the one on Hamlet. The translation (with comment) appeared in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 19 (1884), pp. 363-367.] [cs 613]

Y.c.1603 (1-6) SARRAZIN, Gregor Ignatz, 1857-1915

Professor of English, University of Kiel.

(1) April 16, 1893. Letter from Kiel.

German.

Is honored to be asked to contribute to Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Promises article, despite present illness.

(2) August 9, 1893. Letter from Kiel.

German.

Confirms intention to contribute article.

(3) December 14, 1893. Letter from Kiel.

German.

Is sending the manuscript, which he describes as a “dry stylistic study” with interesting results. Offers to write another article entitled “Shakespeare in Mantua?.” [Both articles, “Zur Chronologie von Shakespeares Jugenddramen” and “Shakespeare in Mantua?” were published in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 29 (1894), pp. 92-109 and pp. 249-254 respectively.]

(4) December 26, 1893. Postcard from Kiel.

German.

Will not be able to finish his article by the end of January, owing to illness.

(5) January 17, 1894. Postcard from Kiel.

German.

Proposes to make it a short article, c. 4-6 pages.

(6) January 31, 1894. Letter from Kiel.

German.

Is sending the manuscript. Also enquires about the identity of Hermann Isaak, author of “Die Sonettperiode in Shakespeares Leben.” [cs 613]

Y.c.1604 (1) SAVITS, Jocza, 1847-1915

Actor, organizer of the Munich Shakespeare Stage.

(1) July 3, 1897. Postcard from Paris.

German.

Tells Leo [who seems to have asked him about theatre performances in Munich] that both theatres will be closed for the vacation for the whole of July; the Hoftheater will begin its performances of Wagner and Mozart operas on August 1; the Residenztheater will reopen on August 5, first with some modern plays. The [Munich] Shakespeare Stage will begin later with Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Lear and Comedy of Errors. [cs 613]

Y.c.1605 (1-3) SCHLENTHER, Paul, 1854-1916

Journalist; Editor of Sunday supplement of Vossische Zeitung.

(1) October 1, 1888. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Wishes to become a member of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft.

(2) June 21, 1890. Note from Berlin.

German.

Is unable to identify a verse quotation.

(3) April 28, 1894. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Refers to funeral of “the old man” [unidentified]; interest in him is exhausted - declines Leo’s offer of an article. Thanks Leo for his poems. [cs 613]

Y.c.1606 (1) SCHLOTTMANN, Louis, 1826-1905

Musician and composer.

(1) January 26, 1884. Visiting card from Berlin.

German.

Brief note. [cs 613]

Y.c.1607 (1-16) SCHMIDT, Alexander, 1816-1887

Director of secondary school; author of Shakespeare-Lexicon.

(1) September 17, 1868. Letter from Königsberg.

German.

Asks if he could borrow Leo’s copy of North’s Plutarch, since he is preparing an edition of the Schlegel-Tieck translation of Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. Discusses Shakespeare’s deviations from the Greek original.

(2) September 26, 1868. Letter from Königsberg.

German.

Since apparently Leo is not able to send an original copy of North but has offered to obtain one, Schmidt asks what German. library might have a copy - he had thought the book to be one of the greatest rarities. Continues discussing Shakespeare’s treatment of Plutarch.

(3) June 9, 1875. Postcard from Königsberg.

German.

Thanks Leo for presentation of a publication.

(4) September 14, 1878. Letter from Königsberg.

German.

Expresses thanks for presentation of a publication. Writes about his difficulties in obtaining literary reference works.

(5) May 18, 1879. Letter from Königsberg.

German.

Responds to suggestion that he contribute to Shakespeare Jahrbuch (previous article in 1868). His interests are mainly linguistic, especially since all his spare time has been consumed by his work on the Shakespeare-Lexicon. Most of his minor scholarly work is published in Programmschriften. But he intends to work on the relationship between Quartos and Folios.

(6) May 22, 1879. Letter from Königsberg.

German.

Vaguely promises article for next year.

(7) September 13, 1879. Letter from Königsberg.

German.

Cannot accept offer to reprint his Programmschrift in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, since it has already been accepted by Anglia. Interesting comments on scholarly publication practices. Discusses textual problems in Richard III.

(8) October 9, 1879. Letter from Königsberg.

German.

Discusses Passionate Pilgrim, 1. 8.

(9) December 29, 1879. Postcard from Königsberg.

German.

Asks about deadline for Shakespeare Jahrbuch manuscript.

(10) January 1, 1880. Letter from Königsberg.

German.

Will send article on Q/F relation of Richard III if Leo really wants it. Thanks Leo for critical comments on his edition [of Coriolanus], to which he will not now respond. Concerning Shakespeare’s language he will not trust Englishmen, who, “among all cultured nations, are the worst philologists” [“die... unter allen Kulturvölkern überhaupt die schlechtesten Philologen sind”].

(11) January 4, 1880. Letter from Königsberg.

German.

Encouraged by Leo he sends an article for Shakespeare Jahrbuch, though he might have rewritten it had he had more time [printed as Alexander Schmidt, “Quartos und Folio von Richard III,” Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 15 (1880), pp. 301-324]. He also adds, on a separate sheet, a detailed response to Leo’s critique of his edition of Coriolanus [A. Schmidt’s text of Coriolanus was printed in vol. I. of Shakespeares ausgewählte Dramen (Berlin: Weidemann, 1878)].

(12) February 1, 1880. Postcard from Königsberg.

German.

Expects to be sent proofs of his article.

(13) March 7, 1880. Postcard from Königsberg.

German.

Wonders why he has not received offprints.

(14) April 10, 1880. Postcard from Königsberg.

German.

MS. need not be returned.

(15) March 31, 1881. Letter from Königsberg.

German.

Points out that he is not a member of the London Shakespeare Society. He does not believe himself to be “Dr. Alexander Schmidt of Berlin” registered among the vice-presidents, since he has never been notified by that society.

(16) May 13, 1882. Letter from Königsberg.

German.

Is considering leaving the Shakespeare Gesellschaft. He is “somewhat tired of Shakespeare.” [cs 613]

Y.c.1608 (1-3) SCHMIDT, Erich, 1853-1913

Professor of Literature in Berlin.

(1) May 14, 1886. Envelope from Weimar.

German.

(2) January 17, 1889. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Declines request to contribute to Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(3) January 12, 1892. Card from Berlin.

German.

Again declines request to contribute to Shakespeare Jahrbuch, owing to other duties of a pressing nature.

Cs 613

Y.c.1609 (1) SCHÖLL, [Gustav Adolf], 1805-1882

Geheimrat, librarian in Weimar.

(1) April 24, 1878. Letter signed Schöll from Weimar.

German.

Apologizes for having been indisposed and so unable to receive his visit and to attend the Shakespeare meeting. Encloses a photograph. Asks Leo to extend his apologies to the President of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft. [cs 613]

Y.c.1610 (1) SCHRÖER, Arnold, 1857-1935

Professor of English in Freiburg.

(1) April 11, 1892. Letter from Freiburg (Baden).

German.

Declares that he is not responsible for the fact that a review of his (Schröer’s) book on Titus Andronicus in Blätter für literarische Unterhaltung (1891), p. 681 f., contains attacks on the editor of the Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Top half of blank second leaf torn away. [cs 613]

Y.c.1611 (1-3) SIEVERS, Eduard Wilhelm 1820-1894

Educator, classical scholar, author of a book on Shakespeare (1866).

(1) August 21, 1893. Letter from Gotha.

German.

Response to solicitation of article for Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Since Sievers has had no connection with the Shakespeare Gesellschaft, he will only contribute to the Jahrbuch if an honorarium may be expected.

(2) January 25, 1894. Letter from Gotha.

German.

Asks about deadline for MS. The article will be on King John. If Leo does not agree with its political and religious implications, he (Leo) may add a distancing editorial remark.

(3) January 27, 1894. Letter from Gotha.

German.

Irritatable reply to an apparently annoying letter concerning the political and religious implications alluded to in the previous letter.

An obituary of Sievers is in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 31 (1895), pp. 369-370. The article referred to in the letters, however, does not seem to have been printed. [cs 613]

Y.c.1612 (1-4) SIMSON, [Martin] Eduard Sigismund von, 1810-1899

Reichsgerichtspräsident.

(1 a-b) June 1, 1888. Letter from Leipzig.

German.

Thanks Leo for offprint of “Shakespeare and Goethe.” (from Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 24 (1889), pp. 9-23).

(2 a-b) April 28, 1890. Note from Leipzig.

German.

Congratulations.

(3) November 19, 1893. Visiting card from Berlin.

German.

Condolences.

(4) Also, a photograph endorsed John Simson.

[cs 613]

Y.c.1613 (1) SOPHIE, consort of Karl Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 1824-1897 (1 a-b) April 22, 1894. Document signed from Weimar.

German.

Official authorization of the Elisabeth Gertrud Stiftung established by Prof. F.A. Leo for the Shakespeare Gesellschaft. [cs 613]

Y.c.1614 (1) STAUNTON, Howard, 1810-1874 (1) April 21, 1869. Letter from Dulwich nr. London.

English.

Thanks Leo for complimentary copy of his Index to Sidney Walker’s [A critical examination of the text of Shakespeare]. [cs 613]

Y.c.1615 (1-6) STOPES, Charlotte (Carmichael), 1841-1929

Author.

(1) June 8, 1890. Postcard from London.

English.

Thanks Leo for copy of his article about Rosencrantz & Guildenstern. It supports her view that there is a “large amount of contemporaneity introduced by Shakespeare....”

(2 a-b) October 4, 1891. Letter from London.

English.

Working on William Hunnis.

Enclosed is a copy of a signature of a Nicholas Gyldenstern found in Lans. MS. XXXII and other information.

(3) January 16, 1892. Letter from London.

English.

Sends her condolences. She and her family have been through hard times. Going through the library of the late Dr. Ingleby.

(4) March 10, 1892. Postcard from London.

English.

Has just sent back proof of her article on William Hunnis.

(5) April 30, 1892. Letter from London.

English.

Would like to arrange a proper meeting with him when he returns to London.

(6) Ca. 1892. Also, a note about an article.

[cs 613]

Y.c.1616 (1) STREBER (1) May 17, 1880. Letter signed Streber from Berlin to an unidentified person.

English.

Concerning a lecture and a possible engagement to give English classes. [cs 613]

Y.c.1617 (1-4) SUPHAN, Bernhard Ludwig, 1845-1911

Director of the Goethe-Archiv, Weimar.

(1) December 2, 1889. Letter from Weimar.

German.

Thought Leo was travelling to Byzantium and has made arrangements for the printing of Leo’s lecture: 1) same number of copies as copies of the Shakespeare Jahrbuch; 2) an extra 200 copies for members of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft; 3) 100 copies for Suphan himself.

(2) November 3, 1891. Postcard from Weimar.

German.

Reports on fruitless efforts to help him in an unidentified matter.

(3) May 30, 1895. Letter from Weimar.

German.

Reports on conversation with the Duke and on the latter’s gracious smile when told that Leo had helped acquire the letters of Frau von Stein.

(4) June 3, 1895. Letter [from Weimar?].

German.

Acknowledges receipt of telegram [apparently saying that Leo is travelling to Silesia]. [cs 613]

Y.c.1618 (1) TAYLOR, Tom, 1817-1880

Dramatist.

(1) May 7, 1877. Letter from Wandsworth, London.

English.

Announces that Leo has been elected an honorary member of the Garrick Club. [cs 613]

Y.c.1619 (1-3) THÜMMEL, Julius Sigismund 1818-1885

Secretary of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft.

(1) June 17, 1877. Letter from Halle.

German.

Although convinced that he is not really an expert on Shakespeare, Thümmel is enclosing his photograph for the Birmingham collection.

(2) May 22, 1885. Postcard from Halle.

German.

Announces MS. for Jahrbuch, vol. XXI, on “Allegory and tendentiousness in Shakespeare’s plays.” Will also send the annual report by early October. [Julius Thümmel, “Allegorisches und Tendenziöses in Shakespeares Dramen,” Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 21 (1886), pp. 43-68.]

(3) October 12, 1885. Letter from Halle.

German.

Letter enclosing article and annual report. Also points out that next year April 23 [usual date for Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting] is Good Friday; hence the meeting must be postponed. [cs 613]

Y.c.1620 (1-3) TIMMINS, Samuel, 1826-1903 (1) June 13, 1890. Letter from Arley, Coventry, Warwickshire.

English.

Sends thanks for complimentary copy of Leo’s [“Rosenkrantz und Guldenstern”] and good wishes on his daughter’s betrothal.

(2) March 25, 1892. Postcard from Arley, Coventry, Warwickshire.

English.

Has not received the announced offprint of “Geflügelte Worte.” Mentions “new theory that Bacon wrote the Sonnets and the Poems.”

(3) August 30, 1894. Letter from Newquay, Cornwall.

English.

Is unable to see Leo, since he is on holiday. Recommends a visit to the [Birmingham] Art Gallery and the Reference Library. Points out that in Stratford the late Charles Flower and his widow had the Grammar School restored to its Elizabethan form. [cs 613]

Y.c. 1621 (1-4) TOBLER, Adolf 1835-1910

Professor of Romance languages, University of Berlin.

(1 a-b) Feb. 18, 1879. Note from Berlin.

German.

Accepting invitation for next Sunday.

(2) April 8, 1879. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Does not think he ought be become a member of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft, not being a Shakespeare specialist. Asks Leo to pass on regards, at the meeting in Weimar, to his former teacher Delius.

(3) July 12, 1895. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Declines to write obituary of his friend Zupitza for Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(4) October 17, 1882. Certificate.

German.

Certifying that Max Pfeffer has finished the previous semester’s course in Old French Poetry. [cs 613]

Y.c.1622 (1-25) ULRICI, Hermann, 1806-1884

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Halle, President of Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft, author of Über Shakespeares Dramatische Kunst (1839).

(1) May 18, 1854. Letter from Halle.

German.

Thanks Leo for appreciative comments on his work. Leo seems to have offered co-operation on a critical edition of Shakespeare. But Ulrici says that his publisher does not seem willing to add more editions of Shakespeare’s plays to the ones already printed by him, let alone to envisage a new complete edition. Makes sarcastic comments on the publishing market. [This, and part of the ensuing correspondence, refers to the project of a new complete German Shakespeare edition, a revision of the Schlegel-Tieck translation. The edition was eventually published, under the general editorship of Hermann Ulrici, as Shakespeares dramatische Werke (Berlin, 1867-71; second edition, 1876-77). Leo contributed to it. See also the letters from Elze (above), especially June 5, 1872.]

(2) April 4, 1866. Letter from Halle.

German.

Encourages Leo to go on with his plan. Invites him to lunch when he is in Halle.

(3) April 12, 1866. Letter from Halle.

German.

Expecting Leo in Halle on April 20; Leo will present his Shakespeare translation. [As president of the newly-founded Shakespeare Gesellschaft,] Ulrici will have to present to the presidium the draft of a public announcement and a call for members; suggests that Leo help him.

(4) May 1, 1866. Letter from Halle.

German.

Apparently written after a social call on Leo. Praises at length Mrs. Leo’s beans. Will write to Duncker [publisher] as soon as proposals [for Shakespeare edition] are concrete.

(5) June 9, 1866. Letter from Halle.

German.

Discussing a motion by Leo for the general assembly [of the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft]. Wonders about the influential views of Dingelstedt and Oechelhäuser. The motion seems to concern the projected Shakespeare edition and Herwegh’s translation of Coriolanus (“... muß ich... Ihren Antrag mit meiner Zustimmung zu demselben dem großen Dingelstedt mittheilen. Wir werden ja dann hören, was der Autokrat zu beschließen für gut findet....” [`I shall have to... inform the great Dingelstedt of your motion along with my agreement to it. Then we shall see what the autocrat deems fit to decide...']. [Franz Dingelstedt, theatre director and author (cf. his letters above), was one of the founding members on the presidium of the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft. He left it again soon, because of internal differences. Besides, he was preparing a new German Shakespeare edition himself (published as Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, 10 vols. (Hildburghausen, 1867)).]

(6) December 16, 1866. Letter from Halle.

German.

Bringing forward the date of the next general assembly of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft from April 23 to February as suggested by Dingelstedt is impractical. The meeting is important because of the election of the president. Dingelstedt, Oechelhäuser or Leo might, however, fulfil that office better than Ulrici himself. - Also reports on negotiations about the Shakespeare edition with the publishers Brockhaus and Reimer.

(7) January 3, 1867. Letter from Halle.

German.

After negotiations with Reimer, a conference of the three presidents [president and 2 vice-presidents] on the projected German Shakespeare edition will be held in Berlin. Leo will be invited to take part.

(8) January 13, 1867. Letter from Halle.

German.

The conference of the three presidents [including vice-presidents; i.e. Ulrici, with Dingelstedt and Oechelhäuser] has taken place in Dessau; hence Leo was not invited after all. A contract on the edition has been concluded with Reimer and needs ratification by the Presidium. Ulrici is to be editor ('Redakteur'). Honoraria are arranged: M 100 per play for revision ('Correctur') of a Schlegel translation; M 140 for revision ('Neubearbeitung') of a Tieck translation.

(9) February 26, 1867. Letter from Halle.

German.

The general assembly will take place on April 23 in Berlin. Ulrici will give a lecture entitled “Über Shakespeares Fehler und Mängel” ['On Shakespeare’s faults’, printed in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 5 (1870), pp. 148-153]. Suggests propaganda for the Shakespeare Gesellschaft. Concerning the edition: Leo has submitted a translation of Macbeth. The three presidents of the Shakespeare Society will decide which of the plays have to be retranslated.

(10) March 1, 1867. Letter from Halle.

German.

Tries to mitigate Leo’s anger about dissension within the presidium: “Aber wollen wir darum, weil 2 Mitglieder des Vorstands ihre eigenen Interessen über die der Gesellschaft stellen und jene betreiben, diese vernachlässigen, den ganzen Verein fallen lassen? Wollen wir der Welt wieder einmal das Schauspiel geben, daß in Deutschland nicht ein Dutzend Männer, auch für die beste und edelste Sache nicht, sich zusammenthun können, ohne gleich auf- und auseinander zu platzen und die Sache zu Falle zu bringen? Müssen wir nicht im Gegentheil um so größere Anstrengungen machen, sie zu halten und zu fördern?.” ['But just because two members of the presidium put their own interests above those of the Gesellschaft, pursuing the former to the detriment of the latter, should this be a reason for us to abandon the society altogether? Do we wish to give the world at large yet another demonstration of how in Germany a dozen men cannot band together, even for the sake of the highest and noblest cause, without (...) at once finding themselves at loggerheads and thus jeopardizing that cause? Must we not rather increase our endeavours to preserve and promote the cause we believe in?...']. Gives the war as an excuse for Bodenstedt’s delay with the Jahrbuch. The war is also responsible for delays in negotiations with potential contributors to the Shakespeare edition. Gildemeister has been approached too late - he has already promised his translation to Brockhaus. Reimer [publisher] insists that no new translation be included, unless particularly recommended by the Shakespeare Gesellschaft committee. Dingelstedt is a problematical member. Ulrici can understand Leo’s refusal to have his Macbeth translation reviewed by Dingelstedt. The rest of the letter concerns preparations for the Berlin meeting of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft on April 23.

(11) March 12, 1867. Letter from Halle.

German.

Agrees with, and thanks Leo for, the programme devised for the Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting on April 23 in Berlin. Further details concerning invitations, protocol, etc.

(12) March 25, 1867. Letter from Halle.

German.

Responding to Leo’s irritation that the executive committee (geschäftsführender Ausschuß) of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft, which includes Dingelstedt, will not be present at the Berlin meeting. (“Es ergibt sich damit freilich wiederum, daß Freund Dingelstedt nicht eben zu den eifrigsten Mitgliedern der Gesellschaft gehört.” ['And so it transpires once again that our friend Dingelstedt is not exactly to be counted among the most enthusiastic of our members.']). Explanations; committee will be represented by Dr. Köster. Further preparations, especially concerning the invitation to the [Prussian] crown princess.

(13) April 9, 1867. Letter from Halle.

German.

Will arrive in Berlin on April 16. Enquires about hotel accommodation.

(14) [April 9(?), 1867.] Letter by Leo to Ulrici with a post-script by Ulrici from Halle, April 10, 1867.

German.

Discusses possible lecture by Gosche, which should not be too long, since Ulrici’s own lecture will last an hour.

(15) April 13, 1867. Letter from Halle.

German.

Thanks Leo for offering to meet him at the station. Gives arrival time.

(16) April 26, 1867. Letter from Halle.

German.

Thanks Leo for his hospitality. Business resulting from general meeting of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft.

(17) February 3, 1868. Letter from Halle.

German.

Wishes to know if Leo will make the keynote lecture at the next Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting. Elze has also offered to do so. (“Ich brauche wohl kaum zu bemerken, daß mir ein Vortrag von Ihnen viel lieber wäre als von dem etwas schulmeisterlichen Elze.” ['I hardly suppose I need tell you that to hear a talk by you would be far more to my taste than one by our somewhat schoolmasterly colleague Elze.'])

(18) February 21, 1868. Letter from Halle.

German.

Is sending complimentary copy of volume I of the third edition of his Shakespeare book. Another copy is for Minister Mühler (a good man but a bad musician).

(19) November 4, 1868. Letter from Halle.

German.

Thanks Leo for the printed version of his lecture; expresses regret that it has been printed separately instead of in Shakespeare Jahrbuch. On the Shakespeare edition: discusses the possibility of including materials on stage adaptations, as suggested by Leo. Points out difficulties.

(20) October 31, 1869. Letter from Halle.

German.

Offers compliments on Leo’s Antony and Cleopatra adaptation. Commends him for having compressed the large number of scenes, a modification which will make the play more effective on stage. Pathos and passions have been reduced. - Asks for comment on textual notes to those volumes of the Shakespeare edition that have already come out, especially Coriolanus.

(21) April 13, 1871. Letter from Halle.

German.

Suggests that copies of Shakespeare Jahrbuch be sent to the newspapers, along with covering letters.

(22) April 21, 1871. Letter from Halle.

German.

A delay in publication of vol. II.1 of the Shakespeare edition has been caused by the belatedness of Hertzberg’s MS. of Cymbeline. Reminds him of introductions to his Macbeth (to be printed in vol. II.2).

(23) November 18, 1873. Letter from Halle.

German.

Ulrici, Elze and Leo have been elected to form a committee on “Preisschriften.”

(24) June 9, 1875. Letter from Halle.

German.

Thanks Leo for Index. His formal letter to the president of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft has been forwarded to Oechelhäuser, who is now, along with Loën, acting president. (Ulrici is now honorary president.)

(25) January 19, 1883. Letter from Halle.

German.

Ulrici is now 77 years old and is unlikely to live to see a third edition of his (their) Shakespeare edition. Discusses a problematic reference. Asks Leo to deal with future matters concerning the edition. [cs 613]

Y.c.1623 (1-34) VINCKE, Gisbert Freiherr von, 1813-1892

Shakespeare scholar, writer.

(1) June 30, 1870. Letter from Freiburg (Breisgau)

German.

Wonders about a performance of All’s Well that Ends Well mentioned in Genée. Has the script been printed or is it in the Royal theatre library?

(2) November 21, 1872. Letter from Freiburg.

German.

Wonders if Leo has a copy of Davenant’s Macbeth. Reports that the last meeting of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft presidium was unusually peaceful.

(3) July 3, 1874. Letter from Freiburg.

German.

On the impossibility of having his plays performed by Hüthen [?]. Critical comment on Shakespeare Gesellschaft trustees: decisions of one meeting tend to be dropped in the next (“... was er [Vorstand] in dieser Sitzung beschließt, das hängt er in der nächsten wieder an den Nagel”).

(4) March 25, 1875. Letter from Freiburg.

German.

Wonders if [Johann Friedrich] Schink’s, Dramaturgische Monate (Schwerin, 1790) can be obtained from the Berlin Royal Library. Would need it for his proposed lecture at the Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting.

(5) November 5, 1877. Letter from Freiburg.

German.

Enclosing photograph.

(6) June 1, 1879. Postcard from Marienbad.

German.

A poem promising an article for Shakespeare Jahrbuch. [Poem listed in the Folger index of first lines: Det Briefken hat mir hier erwischt.]

(7) June 23, 1879. Letter from Ostenwalde (nr. Melle).

German.

Refuses to review Hermann’s study on A Midsummer Night’s Dream , which is nonsense (“Blödsinn”). [Referring to E. Hermann, Shakespeare der Kämpfer: Die polemischen Hauptbeziehungen des Midsummer Night’s Dream und Tempest [...] (Erlangen, 1879).]

(8) July 4, 1879. Postcard from Ostenwalde.

German.

Suggests that an updated list of members of the Shakespeare Gesellschaft should be published in the next Jahrbuch.

(9) October 12, 1879. Letter from Freiburg.

German.

Could Leo obtain Ifflands Almanach 1808-1811 from Berlin Royal Library?

(10) October 17, 1879. Letter from Freiburg.

German.

Thanks Leo for presentation copy. He is delighted to have had his own article for the Shakespeare Jahrbuch accepted. [Probably Vincke, “Schillers Bühnenbearbeitung des Othello,” Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 15 (1880), pp. 222-229.]

(11) November 1, 1879. Letter from Freiburg.

German.

Enclosing a short article.

(12) January 4, 1880. Postcard from Freiburg.

German.

New year poem. [Poem listed in the Folger index of first lines: Spät (wie Bettler) erscheint mein Dank für die zierlichen Verse.]

(13) April 11, 1880. Postcard from Freiburg.

German.

Congratulations on the publication of Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(14) May 12, 1881. Card from Freiburg.

German.

Wonders about the revisions made in Schlegel’s translation of Hamlet, as performed in Berlin in 1799.

(15) May 16, 1881. Card.

German.

Asking for copy of the review of Hamlet, in Schlegel’s version, of October 15, 1799.

(16) June 10, 1881. Postcard from Ostenwalde (nr. Melle).

German.

Acknowledgment.

(17) September 17, 1881. Letter from Freiburg.

German.

Submitting article for Shakespeare Jahrbuch. [Probably G. Vincke, “Zur Geschichte der deutschen Shakespeare-Bearbeitung,” Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 17 (1882), pp. 82-99.]

(18) April 23, 1882. Note from Freiburg.

German.

Apologies for not taking part in Weimar Shakespeare Society meeting.

(19) May 11, 1882. Card from Freiburg.

German.

Doubts if he can contribute to the next Shakespeare Jahrbuch. But this does not mean that he has given up Shakespeare and Weimar completely.

(20) June 14, 1883. Letter from Ostenwalde.

German.

Is inclined to give up his plan to write on the performance of Macbeth by Stepanio, jr., the first German 18th-century Shakespeare stage version (apart from Wieland’s “occult presentations in Biberach”); it does not seem worth the effort.

(21) July 13, 1883. Letter from Ostenwalde.

German.

Would rather not write on “characters that Shakespeare has not created” ('Charaktere, die Shakespeare nicht gezeichnet hat'), as Leo had suggested.

(22) October 6, 1883. Postcard from Freiburg.

German.

Asking for offprint of an article.

(23) November 26, 1883. Letter from Freiburg.

German.

Enclosing note for Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(24) April 19, 1885. Postcard from Freiburg.

German.

Sarcastic comment on [unidentified] unsophisticated lecture at Weimar (=“Athen an der Ilm”).

(25) May 19, 1885. Letter from Baden-Baden.

German.

Gossip. Is contemplating a short article.

(26) May 19, 1885 (evening). Postcard from Baden-Baden.

German.

[The intended short article seems to be on] Two Gentlemen of Verona on stage.

(27) July 7, 1885. Postcard from Ostenwalde.

German.

Thanks Leo for Shakespeare Notes; will send article.

(28) September 2, 1885. Letter from Ostenwalde.

German.

Notes that information on Berlin Hamlet production of October 15, 1799 (Schlegel’s translation) is in Jahrbuch der Monarchie, 1799: “Über die Aufführung des Hamlet nach A.W. Schlegels Übersetzung.” [See also Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 7 (1871), p. 86.]

(29) October 2, 1885. Note from Freiburg.

German.

Submitting short article (Miszelle).

(30) October 13, 1885. Note from Freiburg.

German.

Submitting another short article. [Vol. 21 (1886) of the Shakespeare Jahrbuch contains no less than four articles by Vincke (pp. 149-158; 175-186; 312 f.; 313 f.)]

(31) February 19, 1886. Postcard from Freiburg.

German.

(32) March 16, 1888. Postcard from Freiburg.

German.

On Shakespeare Gesellschaft business.

(33) February 27, 1889. Postcard from Freiburg.

German.

Appreciates photograph of [unidentified] deceased friend.

(34) July 23, 1891. Postcard from Ostenwalde.

German.

Concerning possible publication plans. [cs 613]

Y.c.1624 (1-3) WERDER, Karl, 1806-1893

Professor of Philosophy, Berlin.

(1) April 4, 1857. Letter.

German.

Cannot attend baptismal ceremony.

(2) March 21, 1860. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Regrets that he could not come to Leo’s lecture today.

(3 a-b) June 10, 1876. Letter from Berlin to Dr. Kunstmann.

German.

Seeks information about Recoaro. [cs 613]

Y.c.1625 (1-10) WHITE, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918

US Minister to Germany 1879-81, Berlin. President of Cornell University 1868-85.

(1 a-b) February 21, 1880. Letter from Berlin.

English.

Is not able to be of help in a Shakespearean question. Recommends Professor Corson of Cornell.

(2) February 25, 1880. Letter from Berlin.

English.

Wishes to join the Shakespeare Gesellschaft.

(3 a-b) March 2, 1880. Note from Berlin.

English.

Accepts invitation.

(4) June 13, 1881. Note from Berlin.

English.

Accepts invitation.

(5) June 7, 1882. Letter from Ithaca, N.Y.

English.

Letter of introduction for the Rev. Phillips Brooks.

(6) May 16, 1883. Letter from Ithaca, N.Y.

English.

Enclosing copy of his address on “The New Germany.”

(7) June 25, 1885. Letter from Ithaca, N.Y.

English.

Thanks Leo for prospectuses. Announces forthcoming visit to Europe.

(8) July 6, 1885. Letter from Ithaca, N.Y.

English.

Thanks Leo for recent publications on Shakespeare. Praises the merits of Prof. Corson, who has put forward “the best argument [...] in English against the Baconian theory.”

(9) December 21, 1887. Letter from Ithaca, N.Y.

English.

Letter of introduction for Professor W.T. Hewitt [=Hewett?]. [Probably Waterman Thomas Hewett (1846-1921), author of a history of Cornell and a study of Goethe.]

(10) October 29, 1890. Letter from Ithaca, N.Y.

English.

Thanks Leo for copy of his essay “Rosenkrantz und Guldenstern.” Reports that Professor Corson has returned from Europe. [cs 613]

Y.c.1626 (1) WHITE, Richard Grant, 1821-1885 (1) April 30, 1869. Letter from New York.

English.

Acknowledges receipt of Leo’s Index to Sidney Walker’s [A critical examination of the text of Shakespeare]. “You Germans seem to love Shakespeare so much and to study him so profoundly.” White is thinking of writing an article to show that Shakespeare wrote Bacon’s works. [cs 613]

Y.c.1627 (1-2) WISLICENUS, Paul, 1847-1917 (1) August 29, 1893. Note from Berlin.

German.

Autograph signature removed from a letter.

(2) September 13, 1893. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Thanks Leo for accepting a short article for Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Is at present busy on Greek inscriptions. [cs 613]

Y.c.1628 (1-9) WÜLKER, Richard Paul, 1845-1910

Professor of English in Leipzig.

(1) November 5, 1876. Letter signed Richard Wükker from Leipzig.

German.

Announces the founding of Anglia and invites Leo to contribute.

(2) November 28, 1876. Letter from Leipzig.

German.

Asks Leo to review Elze’s and von Friesen’s books in the first issue of Anglia.

(3) December 10, 1876. Letter from Leipzig.

German.

Thanks Leo for his readiness to review the two books.

(4) March 12, 1877. Letter from London.

German.

Acknowledges receipt of review, which will be printed in the first issue.

(5) July 26, 1891. Letter signed Richard Wülker from Gohlis-Leipzig.

German.

Is contemplating writing an article for Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(6) December 6, 1891. Letter from Gohlis-Leipzig.

German.

Had intended to contribute to Shakespeare Jahrbuch a piece on the visit of Duke Johannes Ernst jr. of Saxe to England. But the relevant material was not accessible, except for the well-known report by Wilhelm Neumayr [Leipzig, 1620]. Is therefore unable to provide the article.

(7) January 13, 1894. Letter from Gohlis-Leipzig.

German.

Submitting article to Shakespeare Jahrbuch. [Probably the short article R. Wülker, “Zu dem Aufsatze ‘Ten Brinks letzter Vortrag über Shakespeare’ ,” Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 29/30 (1894), pp. 246-248.]

(8) June 13, 1895. Letter from Gohlis-Leipzig.

German.

Will not be able to contribute to the next Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(9) November 10, 1896. Postcard from Leipzig.

German.

Gives advance notice of a MS. [cs 613]

Y.c.1629 (1-13) ZUPITZA, Julius, 1844-1895

Professor of English in Berlin (from 1876).

(1) February 17, 1879. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Accepts an invitation.

(2) July 20, 1879. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Concerning debt of 9 marks [dues for membership of Shakespeare Gesellschaft?]. With a postscript in different [Leo’s?] hand.

(3) February 9, 1882. Note from Berlin.

German.

Reports that he has sent a positive reply to Delius [probably concerning a lecture at Shakespeare Gesellschaft meeting].

(4) May 8, 1882. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Hopes to give Leo the manuscript of his lecture for publication in Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(5) October 17, 1884. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Letter of recommendation for Gansow, a student of Zupitza’s.

(6) May 19, 1885. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Announces the title of his article for Shakespeare Jahrbuch: “The Middle English origin of As You Like It.” [“Die mittelenglische Vorstufe von As You Like It.”] It will be about the Tale of Gamelyn. [Published in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 21 (1886), pp. 69-148.]

(7) July 7, 1885. Letter from Berlin.

German.

Reprinting the entire Tale of Gamelyn would require 11-12 pages in the Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(8) October 17, 1885. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Requests 30 offprints.

(9) April 29, 1887. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Cannot travel to Weimar at short notice.

(10) March 20, 1888. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Is unable to recommend candidates for a vacant post.

(11) June 11, 1888. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Thanks Leo for [printed version] of his lecture. Announces forthcoming visit.

(12) May (?) 14, 1889. Visiting card from Berlin.

German.

Enclosing manuscript for Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

(13) November 21, 1890. Postcard from Berlin.

German.

Asks not to be sent review copies (for reviewing in Shakespeare Jahrbuch). Must concentrate on review section of Archiv. [cs 613]

Addendum Y.c.1630-1631

Two sets of letters, one from G.H. Pertz and the other from K. Tropus, do not seem to be addressed to Leo but to Kunstmann, apparently a librarian in the Royal Library in Berlin.

Y.c.1630 (1-8) PERTZ, Georg Heinrich, 1795-1876

Chief librarian in Berlin. Editor of Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Letters signed Pertz or P.

(1) June 18, 1844 [?]. Note from Berlin.

German.

Apologies.

(2) July 18, 1862. Letter from Eastbourne, Sussex.

German.

(3) Ca. July 20, 1862. Letter from Eastbourne, Sussex.

German.

About fowarding his letters etc. Has a note in a different hand at the top: “arrived July 28, passed on to Vogel [?]” and, in yet another hand, answer date (July 28) and initials.

(4) July 24, 1862. Note from Eastbourne, Sussex.

German.

(5) August 5, 1862. Letter from London.

German.

(6) August 8, 1862. Letter from London.

German.

(7) August 19, 1862. Letter from Bury St. Edmunds.

German.

(8) August 31, 1862. Letter from Glasgow.

German.

One of these letters is addressed to the Königliche Bibliothek [Royal Library], Berlin, attention of Kunstmann - apparently the same Kunstmann who is the recipient of letters by Tropus (below). The handwriting is extremely difficult to decipher. Apparently these messages were written while Pertz was on a tour in Great Britain visiting libraries. They contain instructions etc. for Pertz’s library staff. All letters have notes of date of arrival and/or answering, with indecipherable initials. [cs 613]

Y.c.1631 (1-14) TROPUS, K. (1) February 23, 1837. Letter from Berlin.

German.

(2) March 2, 1837. Letter from Berlin.

German.

(3) March 4, 1837. Letter from Berlin.

German.

(4) March 7, 1837. Letter from Berlin.

German.

(5) April 20, 1837. Letter from Berlin.

German.

(6 a-d) October 6, 1864. Letter from Blankenburg bei Rudolstadt in Thüringen.

German.

Enclosing 3 form receipts for books.

(7) November 14, 1864. Letter from Blankenburg bei Rudolstadt.

German.

(8) June 15, 1865. Letter from Blankenburg bei Rudolstadt.

German.

(9) June 29, 1865. Letter from Blankenburg bei Rudolstadt.

German.

(10) July 26, 1865. Letter from Blankenburg bei Rudolstadt.

German.

(11 a-b) February 24, 186x. Letter from Arnstadt in Thüringen.

German.

Enclosing a form receipt.

(12) April 11, 1866. Letter from Arnstadt.

German.

(13) May 16, 1866. Letter from Arnstadt.

German.

(14) June 16, 1866. Letter from Arnstadt.

German.

[cs 613]

Bibliography of Leo’s Shakespeare Publications

Adapted from Antje Eichhorn-Eugen, Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft West, Jahrbuch 1991, pp. 289-291.

(a) Books

Beiträge und Verbesserungen zu Shakespeares Dramen (Berlin, 1853).

Die Deliussche Kritik der von J. Payne Collier aufgefundenen, alten handschriftlichen Emendationen zum Shakespeare gewürdigt (Berlin, 1853).

Shakespeares Coriolanus. Die Deliussche Ausgabe dieser Tragödie kritisch beleuchtet ([Berlin?], 1861).

Shakespeares Frauen-Ideale (Halle, 1869).

(b) Editions, translations, adaptations

William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. Edited by F.A. Leo. With a quarto-facsimile of the tragedy of Coriolanus from the folio of 1623 photolithographed by A. Burchard and with extracts from North’s Plutarch (London, 1864).

Shakespeares Antonius und Cleopatra. Auf Grundlage der Tieck’schen Übersetzung neu bearbeitet, und für die Bühne neu eingerichtet (Halle, 1870).

Macbeth. Übersetzt, eingeleitet und erläutert von F.A. Leo. In: Shakespeares dramatische Werke. Nach der Übersetzung von A.W. Schlegel und W. Tieck. Ed. by Hermann Ulrici for the Deutsche Shakespeare-Geselschaft, vol. 12 (Berlin, 1871).

Four Chapters of North’s Plutarch containing the Lives of Caius Marcius Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Marcus Antonius and Marcus Brutus, photolithographed in the Size of the Original Edition of 1595. With Preface, Notes comparing the Text of the Editions of 1579, 1595 and 1603 and Reference-Notes to the Text of the Tragedies of Shakespeare (London, 1878).

Four chapters of North’s Plutarch as sources to Shakespeare’s tragedies, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and partly to Hamlet and Timon of Athens (London, 1878).

Shakespeare-Notes. (London, 1885).

“Die neue englische Text-Kritik des Shakespeare,” SJ, 1 (1865), 189-219.

“Shakespeare, das Volk und die Narren,” SJ, 15 (1880), 1-17.

“Eine neue Shakespeare-Ausgabe. Coriolanus; King Lear, herausgegeben und erklärt von A. Schmidt; The Merchant of Venice, von J. Fritsche; Henry V, von W. Wagner,” SJ, 15 (1880), 44-72.

“Shakespeares Ovid in der Bodleian Library zu Oxford. Mit zwei Photolithographien,” SJ, 16 (1881), 367-375.

“Lord Verulam’s Authorship of the Shakespeare Works, by Mrs. Windle,” SJ, 17 (1882), 253-257.

“Edwin Booth,” SJ, 18 (1883), 270-272.

“Konkordanz der Shakespeare-Noten,” SJ, 18 (1883), 286-293.

“Pott, Mrs. H., The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies,” SJ, 19 (1884), 287-298.

“Ein italienischer Hamlet,” SJ, 19 (1884), 350-355.

“Salvini als Shakespeare-Erklärer,” SJ, 19 (1884), 363-367.

“Die Baco-Gesellschaft. Nebst einigen Exkursen über die Baco-Shakespeare-Affaire,” SJ, 20 (1885), 190-227.

“Hilfsmittel bei Untersuchungen über Shakespeares Sonette,” SJ, 23 (1888), 304-317.

“Parallel-Zählung der Globe Edition und ersten Folio,” SJ, 23 (1888), 318-332.

“Rückblick auf das 25jährige Bestehen der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft,” SJ, 24 (1889), 1-8.

“Shakespeare und Goethe,” SJ, 24 (1889), 9-23.

“Noch einmal die Baco-Frage. Ein Bücher-Referat,” SJ, 24 (1889), 113-121.

“Die Bankettszene im Macbeth,” SJ, 24 (1889), 194-195.

“Rosenkrantz and Guldenstern,” SJ, 25 (1890), 281-286 und SJ, 26 (1891), 325-336.

“Geflügelte Worte und volkstümlich gewordene Aussprüche aus Shakespeares dramatischen Werken zusammengestellt,” SJ, 27 (1892), 4-107, 311-314.

“Robert Sprengers Bemerkungen zu Dramen Shakespeares,” SJ, 27 (1892), 217-224.

“Transactions of the New Shakespeare Society,” SJ, 27 (1892), 248-303.

“Kuno Fischers Hamlet,” SJ, 33 (1897), 49-56.

“Shakespeare und Börne,” SJ, 33 (1897), 253-257.

“Erklärung,” SJ, 34 (1898), 377.

Also numerous textual notes, editorial prefaces, book reviews and obituaries in vols. 15-34 (1880-1898).