Becker, Rudolf Zacharias, writer, publicist and publishing book dealer of the Goethe period, also teacher at the Dessau Philanthropinum (1751-1822). Eigh. Letter from the U.S. "Your Becker". 1 p. With address. 4to. Gotha 15.V.1790. To the publisher Georg Joachim Göschen in Leipzig, whose fee he exhorts. "... I promised my payouts for the little house and garden I bought on future Freytag; by believing that then my funds would arrive from Leipzig ... If the package expires next Wednesday, I will get it right, and I do not doubt that it will arrive at the right hour to fry myself out of a great embarrassment. If your Vorrath had come out of Nothbüchl. in the fair, there is again a transport to your Ordre ready. I hope and hope that you have made a good fair ...". - Beckers 1788 published "Noth- und Hülfsbüchlein für Bauersleute" was the successful predecessor of the "Didactical Noth- and Hülf-büchchen oder Lehrreiche Freuden- und Trauergeschichte des Dorf Mildheim", which was published in two volumes 1798-1799. small steel engraving portrait Beckers and a contemporary. Article about him. - Autographs by the author of the famous social utopia of "Dorf Mildheim" are very rare in the trade.