Box Coll-2106 - Box 2

Scope and Contents Friedrich Wagner (1803-1876), engraver, Autograph Manuscript Signed (poem “Sakantula”).1 letter, 1 manuscript poem, 1 lithograph poem, 1 invoice for a set of 3 manuscript poems, including this one.- Poem and lithograph: "Sakontala" [ca. 1844] both in manuscript, and a lithograph copy.- Letter 1: 21 October 2004. Stumpff donates a set of poems handwritten by Wagner to the Stadtarchiv Nürnberg (city archive). The set is the one referred to in the invoice, with the...

Scope and Contents Albrecht Weber (1825-1901), Indologist, Autograph Letter Signed, 1865.1 letter, 1 encyclopedia entry.- Letter 1: 18 June 1865. Weber asks his cousin, a high-level government employee, to contact Philalethes (a pseudonym of Johann, King of Saxony, used when he translated Dante's Divine Comedy. He wishes him to take part in a call for papers as an academic, not as a king, and asks his cousin to help in approaching him thus. Weber also relates family gossip.- Encyclopedia...

Scope and Contents Sepoy – German watercolour, ca. 1785.1 watercolour: undated. Watercolour picture, colourful, of a Sepoy. Manuscript title: "Ein Seapoi oder ostindischer englischer Compagnie Soldat." Notes by Alfred Stumpff: Notes on the picture, physical description. Also notes on the picture: It is the original of a copperplate illustration included in the "Historisch-Genealogischer Calender oder Jahrbuch der merkwürdigsten neuen Welt-Begebenheiten für...