Matthisson, Friedrich von, poet, educator, reader, private secretary of the Princess Luise of Anhalt-Dessau in Wörlitz, later Go. Legation councillor, theatre director and librarian in Stuttgart (1761-1831). Eigh. Letter m. U. "F. ==References== 3 S. Kl. 4to. Dessau 14.XII.1783. To a friend whom he addresses with "my Theuerster" and to whom he gives a detailed account of the fairy tale of the "Una" in the Middle Ages. "Even at the right time I remember my promise to tell you the story of the Una ... What belongs to the explanation of the picture is written in the first volume and second songs of Spencer's Fairy Queen. - The lady with whom the Knight of the Red Cross, St. George (i.e., holiness) rides out is Una (i, the truth). Their first monster is that, in the case of a storm, they get lost in the forest of the wanderers ..." [etc.]. Finally comes to speak of an enclosed poem (which no longer exists here). "... Enclosed poem from the innermost of my soul, when in a quiet evening, with sorrowful and joyful sensations, I blessed your thought, and the hour a thousand times which brought me to meet you ..." - In 1793 Luise Matthisson (born in Glafey), the first wife of the poet, court lady of the Princess Luise of Anhalt-Dessau, married Friedrich von Matthisson in Zurich. Eigh. Letter from the U.S. "Luise Matthisson, née Glafey". 12/3 p. Double sheet with address and varnish seal. 4to. Berne (Switzerland) 31.VII.1794. - To the Chamber Councillor Rode in Dessau, who apparently tried for Luise von Glafey to pay a pension from the Court of Dessow. "... Since I wanted to have the money soon, I ask Ew. Please send it to me at my address straight through the mail here to Bern. I logire in the house of the Lord of Bonstetten, been landvogt to Nion ... You would be very obliged if you could pay me out in gold, preceded that it would not make you any trouble to get the mints cursirt in Switzerland, contrary to my request, like the first time ..." - The couple Matthisson was a guest at the Landhaus Karl Viktor von Bonstettens near Bern during this time.