I am very busy with the
publication
of Goethe's Posthu-
mous Works, of which the first five volumes will appear in
a few months.
mous Works, of which the first five volumes will appear in
a few months.
Thomas Carlyle
Breslau 1819.
5. Schiller - Goethe Correspondence. Vols. 3-6 (the
whole being thus completed).
6. The Chaos, a weekly paper, for private circulation,
in manuscript. Social pleasantries of an intellectual
Weimar Society, as is obvious from the contents of most of
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the numbers. Strictly speaking, its circulation is confined
to contributors; but as it appears that certain of the fellow-
labourers date from Edinburgh, it is surely fair that at least
one copy should find its way to Scotland. A request is
made that the favours from our friends in the county of
Dumfries may be continued. Unfortunately a complete
copy cannot be sent. It was at first a very small society
and only a few copies were printed, merely to save tran-
scribing. Gradually the interest in it increased, and the
issue became larger, but by degrees the early numbers were
exhausted. May these Sibylline products, sprung from the
most recent Chalk Deposits of the Continent, afford some
pleasant hours to our friends, who are across the sea on
their Primary Granite. I am to add kindest greetings
from Ottilie. She is in reality the sole Editor of this
Periodical, and, with the aid of a few faithful intelligent
friends, takes the whole direction of the, at times, ticklish
concern.
7. The conclusion of the translation of your Life of
Schiller. By the next despatch I hope to send the little
work complete; I have already given you some news of it
in my Letter of the 7th of June.
8. There is also enclosed a much to be commended
Funeral-oration on our recently deceased, most esteemed
and beloved Grand Duchess.
No more lest I delay the Packet. Hoping for speedy
news of its arrival,
Most faithfully, and in greatest haste,
GOETHE.
WEIMAR, 141l1 June 1830.
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ECKERMANN to CARLYLE.
WEIMAR, d. 20 Octbr. 1832.
MEIN THEURF. R FREUND--Ihr lieber Brief hat mir die
Versicherung gegeben dass unsere schon seit Jahren beste-
hende Verbindung fortbestehen und vielleicht noch inniger
geknu? pft werden wird.
Ihren ersten Artikel u? ber Goethe in dem Magazine habe
ich auf Verlangen vieler Freunde u? bersetzt; und [er] wird
in diesen Tagen im Morgenblatt erscheinen. Ueber den
zweyten bedeutenderen Artikel redet man viel in Deutsch-
land und ich wu? rde ihn auch sogleich u? bersetzt haben,
wenn nicht meine ganze Zeit mit der Redaction der nach-
gelassenen 15 Ba? nde hingenommen wa? re. Doch ho? re ich
dass Herr v. Cotta ihn wird u? bersetzen lassen.
Heute sende ich Ihnen zwey bedeutende Dinge: 1. Eine
vorzu? gliche Schrift u? ber Goethe von Herrn Canzler v. Mu? ller,
der Ihnen ein Exemplar dedicirt hat. Herr v. Mu? ller ist
ein vielja? hriger Freund von Goethe weshalb er auch von
ihm zum Executor des Testaments ernannt worden. Er
hat bey seiner trefflich geschriebenen Schrift Quellen
benutzen ko? nnen die jedem anderen nicht frey standen.
Das Bu? chlein wird fu? r Sie von hohem Interesse seyn
und Sie werden es sicherlich zu einem ferneren Artikel
u? ber Goethe benutzen. 2. Sende ich Ihnen das letzte
Heft von Kunst und Alterthum das am 6n. Bande noch
fehlte und das von uns Freunden herausgegeben worden.
Auch dieses Heft wird fu? r Sie brauchbar und von manchem
Interesse seyn.
Ich bin sehr bescha? ftigt mit der Herausgabe der nach-
gelassenen Werke Goethes wovon die ersten 5 Ba? nde in
wenig Monaten erscheinen. Diese erste Lieferung wird
enthalten:
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1. Den zweyten Theil des Faust.
2. Erstes Manuscript v. Go? tz v. Berlichingen.
3. Schweizer Reise von 1797.
4. Ueber Kunst.
5. Theater und Deutsche Literatur.
In die zweyte Lieferung welche Ostern erscheint wird
kommen:
6. Ausla? ndische Literatur.
7. Gedichte.
8. Aus meinem Leben (die Zeit von 1775).
9. Verschiedene einzelne Sachen.
10. Allgemeines u? ber Natur.
Dann die 3te. Lieferung welche Michaeli 1833 erscheint
wird alle naturwissenschaftlichen Werke enthalten, wodurch
denn auch die Farbenlehre sich nach England verbreiten
wird.
Ich bin nun mit der Redaction dieser bedeutenden
Schriften Tag und Nacht bescha? ftigt, und habe keinen
anderen Gedanken als dieses so gut zu machen als in
meinen Kra? ften steht.
Ist dieses geschehen so werde ich meine Conversationen
mit Goethe herausgeben wovon ich hoffentlich einen guten
Namen und etwas Geld haben werde.
Stunden an junge Engla? nder habe ich schon seit zwey
Jahren nicht mehr gegeben. Ich hatte bloss den Zweck
das unentbehrliche Englisch dabey zu lernen.
Ich zweifle dass ich ku? nftig in Weimar bleiben werde.
Wohin ich aber mich wenden soll weiss ich noch nicht.
Mr. Reeve ist zwey Tage hier gewesen. Er ist ein
wohlunterrichteter sehr liebenswu? rdiger junger Mann. Er
ist fast die ganze Zeit bey Frau v. Goethe gewesen, denn
ich war zu bescha? ftigt um viel mit ihm zu seyn. Er ist
nach Mu? nchen zuru? ckgegangen.
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Ein hiesiger beru? hmter Kupferstecher, Herr Schwerd-
geburth, hat vorigen Winter kurzvor Goethes Tode einPortrait
von ihm gemacht das zu den vorzu? glichsten geho? rt die je
erschienen. Er sendet Ihnen ein Blatt, das der Abhand-
lung des Herrn v. Mu? ller beyliegt. Der Ku? nstler hat die
Absicht einige hundert Abdru? cke von diesem Bilde an den
Kunstha? ndler Ackermann nach London zu senden um sie
an die englischen Freunde Goethes in den drey Ko? nig-
reichen zu verkaufen. Vielleicht haben Sie Gelegenheit
durch ein gu? nstiges Wort in o? ffentlichen Bla? ttern auf dieses
Bild aufmerksam zu machen.
Ich hoffe Sie werden von Frau v. Goethe bald einen
Brief selber sehen. Ich bitte um meine herzlichen Gru? sse
an Madame Carlyle; und verbleibe, Ihr treu verbundener
Freund,
ECKERMANN.
[TRANSLATION. ]
WEIMAR, 2t<<* Octolvr 1832.
MY DEAR FRIEND--Your valued letter has given me
the assurance that the connection between us, which has
already existed for years, will continue, and perhaps be-
come still more closely knit.
At the desire of many friends I have translated your
first Article on Goethe,1 and it will appear very shortly in
the Morgenblatt. There is much talk in Germany about
the more important second Article, and this also I should
1 "Death of Goethe," in the New Monthly Magazine,
No. CXXXVIII. (see Miscellanies, vol. iii. 385). The more important article " Goethe's Works" appeared in the Foreign
Quarterly Review, No. XIX. (see Miscellanies, vol. iv. 109).
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have translated immediately, had not my whole time been
taken up with editing the fifteen posthumous Volumes. I
hear, however, that Herr von Cotta is about to have it
translated.
I send you to-day two things of importance:
1. An excellent Essay on Goethe by the Chancellor von
Mu? ller, who has inscribed a copy to you. Herr von Mu? ller
was for many years a friend of Goethe, and was appointed
by him the Executor of his Will. In his admirably written
Essay, he has been able to make use of sources of informa-
tion which were not available to others. The little work
will be of great interest to you, and you will surely make
use of it for another Article on Goethe. 2. I send you
the last part of K1tnst nnd Alterthum, which was still want-
ing to the sixth volume, and which has been published by
us, his friends. This part will also be useful, as well as
exceedingly interesting, to you.
I am very busy with the publication of Goethe's Posthu-
mous Works, of which the first five volumes will appear in
a few months. This first Section will contain:
1. The second part of Faust.
2. The first manuscript of Gotz von Berlichingen.
3. Swiss Journey of 1797.
4. Concerning Art.
5. The Theatre; German Literature.
The second Section, which will appear at Easter, will
include:
6. Foreign Literature.
7. Poems.
8. "From my Life" \Dichtung und Wahrheit] (the
period of 1775).
9. Miscellaneous detached Pieces.
10. General Views of
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Then the third Section, which is to appear at Michaelmas
1833, will contain all the works on Natural Philosophy,
by means of which the Farbenlehre also will now become
known in England. I am busy day and night with the
editing of these important papers, and have no other thought
than to do this as well as lies in my power.
This done, I shall publish my Conversations with Goethe,
from which I hope to obtain both good repute and a little
money.
For these last two years past I have not given any
lessons to young Englishmen. My only object in giving
them was to learn the, to me indispensable, English language.
I doubt if I shall remain in Weimar for the future. But
in what direction I shall turn my steps, I do not yet know.
Mr. [Henry] Reeve has been here for two days. He is
a well-informed and very charming young man. He has
spent almost the whole time with Madame von Goethe, for
I was too busy to be much with him. He has gone back
to Munich.
Herr Schwerdgeburth, an engraver of repute here, did
a portrait of Goethe last winter shortly before his death,
one of the best that has ever appeared. He sends you a
copy, which accompanies Herr von Mu? ller's Essay. The
artist intends to send some hundred impressions of this
portrait to the Picture-dealer Ackermann in London, that
they may be sold to Goethe's English friends in the Three
Kingdoms. Perhaps you may have an opportunity to draw
attention to this portrait, by a favourable word in the public
papers.
I hope you will soon receive a letter from Madame
von Goethe herself. Pray give my cordial greetings to
Mrs. Carlyle. I remain, your faithful, obliged friend,
ECKERMANN.
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On the 2d of December 1832 Carlyle writes to
his brother Dr. Carlyle, then at Rome:
"I get more earnest, graver not unhappier, every day:
the whole Creation seems more and more Divine to me,
the Natural more and more Supernatural. Out of Goethe,
who is my near neighbour, so to speak, there is no writing
that speaks to me (tnir ansprichf) like the Hebrew Scriptures,
though they lie far remote. Earnestness of Soul was never
shown as there. Ernst ist das Leben; and ever to the last,
soul resembles soul. --Here, however, speaking of Goethe,
I must tell you that last week, as our Mother and I were
passing Sundaywell, a little parcel was handed in which
proved to be from Eckermann at Weimar. It made me
glad and sad. There was a medal in it, struck by Bovy
since the Poet's death: Ottilie had sent it me. Then a gilt
cream-coloured Essay on Goethe's Prattische Wirksamkeit
by one F. von Mu? ller, a Weimar Kunstfreund and intimate
of deceased's, with an inscription on it by him. Finally the
third Heft of the sixth volume of Kunst und Alterthum,
which had partly been in preparation and now posthum-
ously produced itself; to me a touching kind of sight.
Eckermann wrote a very kind letter, explaining how busy
he was with redacting the fifteen volumes of Nachgelassenen
Schriften, the titles of all which he gave me. There is a
volume of Dichtung und Wahrheit, and the completion of
Faust. These are the most remarkable. I have read
Mu? ller's Essay; which is sensible enough; several good
things also are in the Heft; towards the last page of which
I came upon these words (by Mu? ller speaking of Goethe):
'Unter denjitngern Britten zielten Buhoer (? ) und Carlyle ihn
ganz vorziiglich an, und das schone nine Naturell dcs letztern,
seine ruhige, sartsinn{. r. sluffassungsgabe stcigern Goethe's
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Anerkennung bis zur liebevollsten Zuneigung. '1 This of
liebevollste Zuneigung was extremely precious to me. Alas,
und das Alles ist hin! Ottilie promises to write, but I
think not. "
ECK. ERMAXN to CARLYLE.
WEIMAR, ti. 10>>. Navbr. 1833.
Dieses, mein werther Freund, ist nun der dritte Brief
den ich Ihnen schreibe, ohne erfahren zu haben, dass irgend
etwas in Ihre Ha? nde gekommen ist. Im vorigen Winter
ging ein Paket an Sie durch die Herren Parish et Comp, in Hamburg. Wir sendeten Ihnen das letzte Heft von
Kunst und Alterthum, nach Goethe's Tode von uns hinter-
bliebenen Freunden herausgegeben. Auch hatte ich eine
sehr bedeutende kleine Schrift beygelegt: Goethe in seiner
practischen Wirksamkeit, von Herrn Geheimenrath v. Mu? ller.
Da der Verfasser ein langja? hriger Freund Goethe's und ihm
u? berdiess als Testaments -V<3llstre^eP~QfieUen zu Gebote
standen woraus kein Anderer smO? prerTTionnte, so ist jene
kleine Schrift voll der bedeutendsten Details; und ich hatte
die Hoffnung dass Sie daraus fu? r die literarische Welt in
England angenehme Scha? tze ziehen wu? rden. Auch hatte
ich das letzte Portrait von Goethe beygelegt. Wir haben
nun keine Nachricht dass diess alles bey Ihnen angekommen
ist; auch scheint es dass Sie meinen Brief vom Anfang des
letzten Sommers nicht erhalten haben. Unterdess sind
1 Translation: "Among the younger Englishmen, Bulwer
and Carlyle quite especially attract him. The beautiful, pure
nature of the latter, with his calm delicate faculty of perception,
raises Goethe's recognition of him to the warmest affection. "
(See Kunst und Alterthum, Cotta, 1832, Band vi. , 3'" Heft,
640. )
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nun Goethe's Nachgelassene Werke bis zum ion. Bande
erschienen und wir erwarten die letzten 5 in einigen
Wochen. Wir mo? chten Ihnen diese 15 Ba? nde schicken,
aber vorher mo? chten wir erfahren, ob sie nicht vielleicht
schon durch den englischen Buchhandel in Ihren Ha? nden
sind, und ob die Transportkosten nicht vielleicht mehr
betragen als der Preis dieser Werke im englischen Buch-
handel.
Heute sende ich Ihnen die Anku? ndigung und den
Vorbericht des Briefwechsels zwischen Goethe und
Zelter. Es sind bereits in diesen Tagen die beyden ersten
Ba? nde davon erschienen, und ich mache Sie aufmerksam
auf dieses ho? chst bedeutende Werk, das fu? r Sie, wie fu? r alle
u? brigen Freunde Goethe's in England, von nicht geringem
Interesse seyn wird.
Nun mo? chte ich bald etwas von Ihnen ho? ren, besonders
auch was Sie jetzt arbeiten, und ob in dem Laufe des
letzten Jahres nicht irgend eine Abhandlung in Bezog auf' nj,
Goethe und die deutsche Literatur, in einem der englischen
Reviews von Ihnen erschienen ist. Da die vorzu? glichsten
englischen Journale nach Weimar kommen, so wu? rden Sie
hier eifrige Leser finden.
Ich sage die herzlichsten Gru? sse an Madame Carlyle,
und schliesse mit dem Wunsch eines baldigen Briefes von
Ihnen.
Ihr treuer Freund,
ECKERMANN.
[TRANSLATION. ]
WEIMAR, loth November 1833.
This, my esteemed friend, is now the third letter I
write to you, without having learnt if any one of them has
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reached you. Last winter a parcel went to you by Messrs.
Parish and Co. of Hamburg. We sent you the last part of
Kunst und Alterthum, published after Goethe's death by us,
his surviving friends. I also added a very important little
paper: "Goethe, in his Official Capacity," by Herr von
Mu? ller, Privy-Counsellor. As the author was a friend of
Goethe's of many years' standing, as well as Executor of
his Will, sources of information were at his command,
which were not available to any one else; his little paper
is full of the most important details, and I had the hope
that you would draw from it welcome treasures for the
English literary world . I also sent the last portrait of
Goethe. We have up to this time no information that
all this has reached you, and it also seems that you have
not received my letter of the beginning of last summer.
Meanwhile Goethe's Posthumous Works as far as the tenth
volume have appeared, and we expect the last five in a few
weeks. We should like to send you these fifteen volumes,
but we want first to learn whether, by chance, they have
not already reached you through the English booksellers,
and whether the cost of carriage will not perhaps amount
to more than the price of the books in England.
I send you to-day the announcement of the Correspond-
ence between Goethe and Zelter, and the Preface to it.
The first two volumes of this have already appeared within
these last days, and I call your attention to this most im-
portant work, which will be of no small interest to you as
well as to Goethe's other friends in England.
I trust that I may soon hear something from you,
especially of what you are at present at work upon, and
whether in the course of the last year, some essay by you
on Goethe and German Literature has not appeared in one
of the English Reviews? As the leading English Journals
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come to Weimar, you would find eager readers here. I
send my most cordial greetings to Mrs. Carlyle, and close
with the hope of receiving a letter from you very soon.
Your faithful friend,
ECKERMANN.
The original of the following Letter is said to be
lost; in any case it is not discoverable. Eckermann printed a translation of it; and from his translation'
it is here rendered back into English.
Carlyle to ECKERMANN.
CRAIGENPUTTOCK, 6th May 1834.
MY DEAR ECKKRMANN--Your kind Letter of the loth of
November 1833 reached me at last, after our long stormy
winter, a few days ago,--a belated but highly welcome
arrival. It is painful to think how our Correspondence has
gone astray of late: your Letter of last summer never ar-
rived here and two of mine seem to have been lost. My
last from you was the Weimar Packet of the previous winter,
which, as I very well remember, reached me (by the hands
of a rustic on his way to us) one stormy day, among the
mountains, in the valley of Glenessland. I hurriedly opened
it, and in spite of the wind, took a hasty glance. I found
there the things you mention: a Letter from you, the last
part of Kunst und Alterthum, Herr von Mu? ller's interesting
Brochure, both of these with an extremely friendly inscrip-
tion in his own hand, and lastly Herr Schwerdgeburth's
1 Republished in the Grenzboten, iii. 562-564, 1885.
Z
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5. Schiller - Goethe Correspondence. Vols. 3-6 (the
whole being thus completed).
6. The Chaos, a weekly paper, for private circulation,
in manuscript. Social pleasantries of an intellectual
Weimar Society, as is obvious from the contents of most of
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the numbers. Strictly speaking, its circulation is confined
to contributors; but as it appears that certain of the fellow-
labourers date from Edinburgh, it is surely fair that at least
one copy should find its way to Scotland. A request is
made that the favours from our friends in the county of
Dumfries may be continued. Unfortunately a complete
copy cannot be sent. It was at first a very small society
and only a few copies were printed, merely to save tran-
scribing. Gradually the interest in it increased, and the
issue became larger, but by degrees the early numbers were
exhausted. May these Sibylline products, sprung from the
most recent Chalk Deposits of the Continent, afford some
pleasant hours to our friends, who are across the sea on
their Primary Granite. I am to add kindest greetings
from Ottilie. She is in reality the sole Editor of this
Periodical, and, with the aid of a few faithful intelligent
friends, takes the whole direction of the, at times, ticklish
concern.
7. The conclusion of the translation of your Life of
Schiller. By the next despatch I hope to send the little
work complete; I have already given you some news of it
in my Letter of the 7th of June.
8. There is also enclosed a much to be commended
Funeral-oration on our recently deceased, most esteemed
and beloved Grand Duchess.
No more lest I delay the Packet. Hoping for speedy
news of its arrival,
Most faithfully, and in greatest haste,
GOETHE.
WEIMAR, 141l1 June 1830.
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ECKERMANN to CARLYLE.
WEIMAR, d. 20 Octbr. 1832.
MEIN THEURF. R FREUND--Ihr lieber Brief hat mir die
Versicherung gegeben dass unsere schon seit Jahren beste-
hende Verbindung fortbestehen und vielleicht noch inniger
geknu? pft werden wird.
Ihren ersten Artikel u? ber Goethe in dem Magazine habe
ich auf Verlangen vieler Freunde u? bersetzt; und [er] wird
in diesen Tagen im Morgenblatt erscheinen. Ueber den
zweyten bedeutenderen Artikel redet man viel in Deutsch-
land und ich wu? rde ihn auch sogleich u? bersetzt haben,
wenn nicht meine ganze Zeit mit der Redaction der nach-
gelassenen 15 Ba? nde hingenommen wa? re. Doch ho? re ich
dass Herr v. Cotta ihn wird u? bersetzen lassen.
Heute sende ich Ihnen zwey bedeutende Dinge: 1. Eine
vorzu? gliche Schrift u? ber Goethe von Herrn Canzler v. Mu? ller,
der Ihnen ein Exemplar dedicirt hat. Herr v. Mu? ller ist
ein vielja? hriger Freund von Goethe weshalb er auch von
ihm zum Executor des Testaments ernannt worden. Er
hat bey seiner trefflich geschriebenen Schrift Quellen
benutzen ko? nnen die jedem anderen nicht frey standen.
Das Bu? chlein wird fu? r Sie von hohem Interesse seyn
und Sie werden es sicherlich zu einem ferneren Artikel
u? ber Goethe benutzen. 2. Sende ich Ihnen das letzte
Heft von Kunst und Alterthum das am 6n. Bande noch
fehlte und das von uns Freunden herausgegeben worden.
Auch dieses Heft wird fu? r Sie brauchbar und von manchem
Interesse seyn.
Ich bin sehr bescha? ftigt mit der Herausgabe der nach-
gelassenen Werke Goethes wovon die ersten 5 Ba? nde in
wenig Monaten erscheinen. Diese erste Lieferung wird
enthalten:
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1. Den zweyten Theil des Faust.
2. Erstes Manuscript v. Go? tz v. Berlichingen.
3. Schweizer Reise von 1797.
4. Ueber Kunst.
5. Theater und Deutsche Literatur.
In die zweyte Lieferung welche Ostern erscheint wird
kommen:
6. Ausla? ndische Literatur.
7. Gedichte.
8. Aus meinem Leben (die Zeit von 1775).
9. Verschiedene einzelne Sachen.
10. Allgemeines u? ber Natur.
Dann die 3te. Lieferung welche Michaeli 1833 erscheint
wird alle naturwissenschaftlichen Werke enthalten, wodurch
denn auch die Farbenlehre sich nach England verbreiten
wird.
Ich bin nun mit der Redaction dieser bedeutenden
Schriften Tag und Nacht bescha? ftigt, und habe keinen
anderen Gedanken als dieses so gut zu machen als in
meinen Kra? ften steht.
Ist dieses geschehen so werde ich meine Conversationen
mit Goethe herausgeben wovon ich hoffentlich einen guten
Namen und etwas Geld haben werde.
Stunden an junge Engla? nder habe ich schon seit zwey
Jahren nicht mehr gegeben. Ich hatte bloss den Zweck
das unentbehrliche Englisch dabey zu lernen.
Ich zweifle dass ich ku? nftig in Weimar bleiben werde.
Wohin ich aber mich wenden soll weiss ich noch nicht.
Mr. Reeve ist zwey Tage hier gewesen. Er ist ein
wohlunterrichteter sehr liebenswu? rdiger junger Mann. Er
ist fast die ganze Zeit bey Frau v. Goethe gewesen, denn
ich war zu bescha? ftigt um viel mit ihm zu seyn. Er ist
nach Mu? nchen zuru? ckgegangen.
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Ein hiesiger beru? hmter Kupferstecher, Herr Schwerd-
geburth, hat vorigen Winter kurzvor Goethes Tode einPortrait
von ihm gemacht das zu den vorzu? glichsten geho? rt die je
erschienen. Er sendet Ihnen ein Blatt, das der Abhand-
lung des Herrn v. Mu? ller beyliegt. Der Ku? nstler hat die
Absicht einige hundert Abdru? cke von diesem Bilde an den
Kunstha? ndler Ackermann nach London zu senden um sie
an die englischen Freunde Goethes in den drey Ko? nig-
reichen zu verkaufen. Vielleicht haben Sie Gelegenheit
durch ein gu? nstiges Wort in o? ffentlichen Bla? ttern auf dieses
Bild aufmerksam zu machen.
Ich hoffe Sie werden von Frau v. Goethe bald einen
Brief selber sehen. Ich bitte um meine herzlichen Gru? sse
an Madame Carlyle; und verbleibe, Ihr treu verbundener
Freund,
ECKERMANN.
[TRANSLATION. ]
WEIMAR, 2t<<* Octolvr 1832.
MY DEAR FRIEND--Your valued letter has given me
the assurance that the connection between us, which has
already existed for years, will continue, and perhaps be-
come still more closely knit.
At the desire of many friends I have translated your
first Article on Goethe,1 and it will appear very shortly in
the Morgenblatt. There is much talk in Germany about
the more important second Article, and this also I should
1 "Death of Goethe," in the New Monthly Magazine,
No. CXXXVIII. (see Miscellanies, vol. iii. 385). The more important article " Goethe's Works" appeared in the Foreign
Quarterly Review, No. XIX. (see Miscellanies, vol. iv. 109).
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have translated immediately, had not my whole time been
taken up with editing the fifteen posthumous Volumes. I
hear, however, that Herr von Cotta is about to have it
translated.
I send you to-day two things of importance:
1. An excellent Essay on Goethe by the Chancellor von
Mu? ller, who has inscribed a copy to you. Herr von Mu? ller
was for many years a friend of Goethe, and was appointed
by him the Executor of his Will. In his admirably written
Essay, he has been able to make use of sources of informa-
tion which were not available to others. The little work
will be of great interest to you, and you will surely make
use of it for another Article on Goethe. 2. I send you
the last part of K1tnst nnd Alterthum, which was still want-
ing to the sixth volume, and which has been published by
us, his friends. This part will also be useful, as well as
exceedingly interesting, to you.
I am very busy with the publication of Goethe's Posthu-
mous Works, of which the first five volumes will appear in
a few months. This first Section will contain:
1. The second part of Faust.
2. The first manuscript of Gotz von Berlichingen.
3. Swiss Journey of 1797.
4. Concerning Art.
5. The Theatre; German Literature.
The second Section, which will appear at Easter, will
include:
6. Foreign Literature.
7. Poems.
8. "From my Life" \Dichtung und Wahrheit] (the
period of 1775).
9. Miscellaneous detached Pieces.
10. General Views of
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Then the third Section, which is to appear at Michaelmas
1833, will contain all the works on Natural Philosophy,
by means of which the Farbenlehre also will now become
known in England. I am busy day and night with the
editing of these important papers, and have no other thought
than to do this as well as lies in my power.
This done, I shall publish my Conversations with Goethe,
from which I hope to obtain both good repute and a little
money.
For these last two years past I have not given any
lessons to young Englishmen. My only object in giving
them was to learn the, to me indispensable, English language.
I doubt if I shall remain in Weimar for the future. But
in what direction I shall turn my steps, I do not yet know.
Mr. [Henry] Reeve has been here for two days. He is
a well-informed and very charming young man. He has
spent almost the whole time with Madame von Goethe, for
I was too busy to be much with him. He has gone back
to Munich.
Herr Schwerdgeburth, an engraver of repute here, did
a portrait of Goethe last winter shortly before his death,
one of the best that has ever appeared. He sends you a
copy, which accompanies Herr von Mu? ller's Essay. The
artist intends to send some hundred impressions of this
portrait to the Picture-dealer Ackermann in London, that
they may be sold to Goethe's English friends in the Three
Kingdoms. Perhaps you may have an opportunity to draw
attention to this portrait, by a favourable word in the public
papers.
I hope you will soon receive a letter from Madame
von Goethe herself. Pray give my cordial greetings to
Mrs. Carlyle. I remain, your faithful, obliged friend,
ECKERMANN.
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On the 2d of December 1832 Carlyle writes to
his brother Dr. Carlyle, then at Rome:
"I get more earnest, graver not unhappier, every day:
the whole Creation seems more and more Divine to me,
the Natural more and more Supernatural. Out of Goethe,
who is my near neighbour, so to speak, there is no writing
that speaks to me (tnir ansprichf) like the Hebrew Scriptures,
though they lie far remote. Earnestness of Soul was never
shown as there. Ernst ist das Leben; and ever to the last,
soul resembles soul. --Here, however, speaking of Goethe,
I must tell you that last week, as our Mother and I were
passing Sundaywell, a little parcel was handed in which
proved to be from Eckermann at Weimar. It made me
glad and sad. There was a medal in it, struck by Bovy
since the Poet's death: Ottilie had sent it me. Then a gilt
cream-coloured Essay on Goethe's Prattische Wirksamkeit
by one F. von Mu? ller, a Weimar Kunstfreund and intimate
of deceased's, with an inscription on it by him. Finally the
third Heft of the sixth volume of Kunst und Alterthum,
which had partly been in preparation and now posthum-
ously produced itself; to me a touching kind of sight.
Eckermann wrote a very kind letter, explaining how busy
he was with redacting the fifteen volumes of Nachgelassenen
Schriften, the titles of all which he gave me. There is a
volume of Dichtung und Wahrheit, and the completion of
Faust. These are the most remarkable. I have read
Mu? ller's Essay; which is sensible enough; several good
things also are in the Heft; towards the last page of which
I came upon these words (by Mu? ller speaking of Goethe):
'Unter denjitngern Britten zielten Buhoer (? ) und Carlyle ihn
ganz vorziiglich an, und das schone nine Naturell dcs letztern,
seine ruhige, sartsinn{. r. sluffassungsgabe stcigern Goethe's
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Anerkennung bis zur liebevollsten Zuneigung. '1 This of
liebevollste Zuneigung was extremely precious to me. Alas,
und das Alles ist hin! Ottilie promises to write, but I
think not. "
ECK. ERMAXN to CARLYLE.
WEIMAR, ti. 10>>. Navbr. 1833.
Dieses, mein werther Freund, ist nun der dritte Brief
den ich Ihnen schreibe, ohne erfahren zu haben, dass irgend
etwas in Ihre Ha? nde gekommen ist. Im vorigen Winter
ging ein Paket an Sie durch die Herren Parish et Comp, in Hamburg. Wir sendeten Ihnen das letzte Heft von
Kunst und Alterthum, nach Goethe's Tode von uns hinter-
bliebenen Freunden herausgegeben. Auch hatte ich eine
sehr bedeutende kleine Schrift beygelegt: Goethe in seiner
practischen Wirksamkeit, von Herrn Geheimenrath v. Mu? ller.
Da der Verfasser ein langja? hriger Freund Goethe's und ihm
u? berdiess als Testaments -V<3llstre^eP~QfieUen zu Gebote
standen woraus kein Anderer smO? prerTTionnte, so ist jene
kleine Schrift voll der bedeutendsten Details; und ich hatte
die Hoffnung dass Sie daraus fu? r die literarische Welt in
England angenehme Scha? tze ziehen wu? rden. Auch hatte
ich das letzte Portrait von Goethe beygelegt. Wir haben
nun keine Nachricht dass diess alles bey Ihnen angekommen
ist; auch scheint es dass Sie meinen Brief vom Anfang des
letzten Sommers nicht erhalten haben. Unterdess sind
1 Translation: "Among the younger Englishmen, Bulwer
and Carlyle quite especially attract him. The beautiful, pure
nature of the latter, with his calm delicate faculty of perception,
raises Goethe's recognition of him to the warmest affection. "
(See Kunst und Alterthum, Cotta, 1832, Band vi. , 3'" Heft,
640. )
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nun Goethe's Nachgelassene Werke bis zum ion. Bande
erschienen und wir erwarten die letzten 5 in einigen
Wochen. Wir mo? chten Ihnen diese 15 Ba? nde schicken,
aber vorher mo? chten wir erfahren, ob sie nicht vielleicht
schon durch den englischen Buchhandel in Ihren Ha? nden
sind, und ob die Transportkosten nicht vielleicht mehr
betragen als der Preis dieser Werke im englischen Buch-
handel.
Heute sende ich Ihnen die Anku? ndigung und den
Vorbericht des Briefwechsels zwischen Goethe und
Zelter. Es sind bereits in diesen Tagen die beyden ersten
Ba? nde davon erschienen, und ich mache Sie aufmerksam
auf dieses ho? chst bedeutende Werk, das fu? r Sie, wie fu? r alle
u? brigen Freunde Goethe's in England, von nicht geringem
Interesse seyn wird.
Nun mo? chte ich bald etwas von Ihnen ho? ren, besonders
auch was Sie jetzt arbeiten, und ob in dem Laufe des
letzten Jahres nicht irgend eine Abhandlung in Bezog auf' nj,
Goethe und die deutsche Literatur, in einem der englischen
Reviews von Ihnen erschienen ist. Da die vorzu? glichsten
englischen Journale nach Weimar kommen, so wu? rden Sie
hier eifrige Leser finden.
Ich sage die herzlichsten Gru? sse an Madame Carlyle,
und schliesse mit dem Wunsch eines baldigen Briefes von
Ihnen.
Ihr treuer Freund,
ECKERMANN.
[TRANSLATION. ]
WEIMAR, loth November 1833.
This, my esteemed friend, is now the third letter I
write to you, without having learnt if any one of them has
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reached you. Last winter a parcel went to you by Messrs.
Parish and Co. of Hamburg. We sent you the last part of
Kunst und Alterthum, published after Goethe's death by us,
his surviving friends. I also added a very important little
paper: "Goethe, in his Official Capacity," by Herr von
Mu? ller, Privy-Counsellor. As the author was a friend of
Goethe's of many years' standing, as well as Executor of
his Will, sources of information were at his command,
which were not available to any one else; his little paper
is full of the most important details, and I had the hope
that you would draw from it welcome treasures for the
English literary world . I also sent the last portrait of
Goethe. We have up to this time no information that
all this has reached you, and it also seems that you have
not received my letter of the beginning of last summer.
Meanwhile Goethe's Posthumous Works as far as the tenth
volume have appeared, and we expect the last five in a few
weeks. We should like to send you these fifteen volumes,
but we want first to learn whether, by chance, they have
not already reached you through the English booksellers,
and whether the cost of carriage will not perhaps amount
to more than the price of the books in England.
I send you to-day the announcement of the Correspond-
ence between Goethe and Zelter, and the Preface to it.
The first two volumes of this have already appeared within
these last days, and I call your attention to this most im-
portant work, which will be of no small interest to you as
well as to Goethe's other friends in England.
I trust that I may soon hear something from you,
especially of what you are at present at work upon, and
whether in the course of the last year, some essay by you
on Goethe and German Literature has not appeared in one
of the English Reviews? As the leading English Journals
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come to Weimar, you would find eager readers here. I
send my most cordial greetings to Mrs. Carlyle, and close
with the hope of receiving a letter from you very soon.
Your faithful friend,
ECKERMANN.
The original of the following Letter is said to be
lost; in any case it is not discoverable. Eckermann printed a translation of it; and from his translation'
it is here rendered back into English.
Carlyle to ECKERMANN.
CRAIGENPUTTOCK, 6th May 1834.
MY DEAR ECKKRMANN--Your kind Letter of the loth of
November 1833 reached me at last, after our long stormy
winter, a few days ago,--a belated but highly welcome
arrival. It is painful to think how our Correspondence has
gone astray of late: your Letter of last summer never ar-
rived here and two of mine seem to have been lost. My
last from you was the Weimar Packet of the previous winter,
which, as I very well remember, reached me (by the hands
of a rustic on his way to us) one stormy day, among the
mountains, in the valley of Glenessland. I hurriedly opened
it, and in spite of the wind, took a hasty glance. I found
there the things you mention: a Letter from you, the last
part of Kunst und Alterthum, Herr von Mu? ller's interesting
Brochure, both of these with an extremely friendly inscrip-
tion in his own hand, and lastly Herr Schwerdgeburth's
1 Republished in the Grenzboten, iii. 562-564, 1885.
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