Goethekreis. - Gerning, Johann Isaak Frhr von, a Hessian diplomat, statesman and writer from Frankfurt, had lively contact with Goethe, had important collections of art and naturalities (1767-1837). Eigh. Letter from M. U. "v. Gerning. 4 pp., closely described. Double leaf. Gr. 4to. Frankfurt a. M 27.XI.1810. Extensive and substantial letter to the friend Karl Ludwig von Knebel (1744-1834), Goethe's "Urfreund", whom he congratulates for his birthday. Thanks for Knebel's letter, "that I received ... on a beautiful morning, at the foot of the Johannes mountain in the Rheingau, bey the grape cure and filled me with joy. First of all, thanks for your heart. Hymnus, for which Mother Earth still pays you with life and lust for life for a long time and to give you many more 30th 9ber ... I would have liked to send you a box of our local Colonial-Products, but the Castanias and sausages are not ready yet ... The days of our birth month are quite cloudy this time, but whoever, like you, carries the purest life ether in the soul, they are also cheerful. So live the nine children! They usually have something swarming and poetic, e.g. Luther, Lavater, Schiller, Werner, Heinrich d. 4te, Bayle, pp. Where did this come from? ... It is also said that the fate 'ruttle' them sometimes. Sey it, do you have strength to shake off again ...". He would like to spend "a winter" again at Knebel. "...but now you really don't have to leave the Laren and Penaten! We have here, the Colonial-Chesser for, annoying soldier accommodation! ... That's how worry and plague are everywhere! But I live here among other good people quite happily, and the muse remains to me a fair companion ...". Then report on the progress of his publications, e.g. the illustrating of his "Bäder am Rhein" as well as his Ovid and Horaz broadcasts. "... The good Wolzogen is just here for a few months & greets you heartl. with thanks for your hymn, which the Schiller gave to her. Amalie Helwig winters in Heidelberg and, as you will know, has brought new muses of fabric. She wants to come here on Weyhnachten. I met her last summer in Schwalbach and Snake Bath ...". Speaks then of the imprint of the "hymnus" in the "morning leaf": "This is a favor of the Jew Cotta, who usually only gives poetica of his publishing house in it". Greetings the "must-father Gothe", "to the next also a little autumn. Kitchens send souvenirs! ...". - Brown-spotted, especially the second leaf.