• Benjamin Beresford to August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  • Place of Dispatch: Dresden GND · Place of Destination: Dresden GND · Date: 11.09.1798
Edition Status: Newly transcribed and labelled; double collated
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  • Sender: Benjamin Beresford
  • Recipient: August Wilhelm von Schlegel
  • Place of Dispatch: Dresden GND
  • Place of Destination: Dresden GND
  • Date: 11.09.1798
  • Notations: Absende- und Empfangsort erschlossen.
    Manuscript
  • Provider: Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
  • OAI Id: DE-611-38972
  • Classification Number: Mscr.Dresd.e.90,XIX,Bd.3,Nr.19
  • Number of Pages: 1 S., hs. m. U.
  • Incipit: „[1] Tuesday afternoon 11 Sep. 98.
    Sir
    I was in hopes of meeting you today at the public library to have had [...]“
    Language
  • English
    Editors
  • Bamberg, Claudia
  • Varwig, Olivia
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[1] Tuesday afternoon 11 Sep. 98.
Sir
I was in hopes of meeting you today at the public library to have had the honor of being introduced to you, as Mr Dasdorff informed me yesterday you generally came there in a morning. My stay at Dresden being very short, I beg youʼll inform me, by return of the bearer, if this afternoon or tomorrow, it would be agreeable to you to be waited upon. – I am writing sketches, biographical and critical, of the German poets, with select specimens of their works translated into the same measure as the original (a method, I find with pleasure, you have followed in your version of our immortal bard) and I am naturally ambitious to know personally a gentlemen who will make a distinguished appearance in my list of poetical writers. I beg your acceptance of a trifling performance I have lately published, and I remain, Sir
Your obed & hble Servant
B Beresford
Golden Angel.
[2] [leer]
[1] Tuesday afternoon 11 Sep. 98.
Sir
I was in hopes of meeting you today at the public library to have had the honor of being introduced to you, as Mr Dasdorff informed me yesterday you generally came there in a morning. My stay at Dresden being very short, I beg youʼll inform me, by return of the bearer, if this afternoon or tomorrow, it would be agreeable to you to be waited upon. – I am writing sketches, biographical and critical, of the German poets, with select specimens of their works translated into the same measure as the original (a method, I find with pleasure, you have followed in your version of our immortal bard) and I am naturally ambitious to know personally a gentlemen who will make a distinguished appearance in my list of poetical writers. I beg your acceptance of a trifling performance I have lately published, and I remain, Sir
Your obed & hble Servant
B Beresford
Golden Angel.
[2] [leer]
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