Goethekreis. - Biedermann, Woldemar Frhr von, Goethe researcher, co-founder of the Goethe-Gesellschaft (1817-1903). Eigh. Letter from the U.S. "W Frhr Biedermann". 3 p. Double leaf. With the envelope. Gr. 8vo. Dresden-Altstadt 29.VII.1885. To the Count Victor von Wimpffen at Kainberg Castle (Steiermark). First of all, apologise that he has not yet confirmed receipt of the copy of a letter from Goethe dated 1831 to the Grand Duke Karl Friedrich, and continues: "... The printing of the letter in the 'Weimarian Yearbook' III. Vol. 211 (1855) differs from the transcription in the latter in the first line 'often', in the printing 'of more'. If in the print the 'desirable' is written in the first and 'confident' in the last line with large initial letters, the editor of that yearbook (Hoffmann v. Fallersleben) considered the letters without reason for initials ...".