• Benjamin Beresford to August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  • Place of Dispatch: Berlin GND · Place of Destination: Jena GND · Date: 25.12.1798
Edition Status: Newly transcribed and labelled; double collated
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  • Sender: Benjamin Beresford
  • Recipient: August Wilhelm von Schlegel
  • Place of Dispatch: Berlin GND
  • Place of Destination: Jena GND
  • Date: 25.12.1798
  • Notations: 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.21
  • Number of Pages: 2 S., hs. m. U.
  • Format: 23,4 x 19,1 cm
  • Incipit: „[1] Berlin 25 Dec. 1798
    Sir,
    I was duly favourʼd with your obliging letter of the 26 Novr. and have just received [...]“
    Language
  • English
    Editors
  • Bamberg, Claudia
  • Varwig, Olivia
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[1] Berlin 25 Dec. 1798
Sir,
I was duly favourʼd with your obliging letter of the 26 Novr. and have just received the copy of the number, in which such flattering mention is made of my translations. I was very wrong in having been so impatient; I am quite ashamed of it, and ask the conductors of the journalʼs pardon for the injustice I did them, in supposing I was neglected. To you, sir, I owe more thanks than I am able to express. – I accept your kind offer of noticing any further productions of mine; I shall soon have occasion to trouble you, and, in the mean while, I request youʼll be so good [2] as to announce the second edition of the German Erato, with an extract from the addition matter, should it meet with your approbation. I beg to add that I was forced to alter Götheʼs charming song a little, as the English reader, unacquainted with the novel from whence it is taken, would be at a loss to know, why the same person could be called lover, protector and father. I have taken a small liberty with Matthisson because the two last lines, as they stand in the original; are after melancholy a cast for a may-song. I remain, with great esteem,
Sir,
Your obliged humble Servant
B Beresford.
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[1] Berlin 25 Dec. 1798
Sir,
I was duly favourʼd with your obliging letter of the 26 Novr. and have just received the copy of the number, in which such flattering mention is made of my translations. I was very wrong in having been so impatient; I am quite ashamed of it, and ask the conductors of the journalʼs pardon for the injustice I did them, in supposing I was neglected. To you, sir, I owe more thanks than I am able to express. – I accept your kind offer of noticing any further productions of mine; I shall soon have occasion to trouble you, and, in the mean while, I request youʼll be so good [2] as to announce the second edition of the German Erato, with an extract from the addition matter, should it meet with your approbation. I beg to add that I was forced to alter Götheʼs charming song a little, as the English reader, unacquainted with the novel from whence it is taken, would be at a loss to know, why the same person could be called lover, protector and father. I have taken a small liberty with Matthisson because the two last lines, as they stand in the original; are after melancholy a cast for a may-song. I remain, with great esteem,
Sir,
Your obliged humble Servant
B Beresford.
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