Goethekreis. - Maltitz, Apollonius von, diplomat and poet, long years of imperial Russian envoy at the Weimar court, networked with almost all the greats of the literature of his time, lived for 7 years in Rio de Janeiro (1795-1870). Eigh. Letter from M. U. "Maltitz". 11/3 p. Double page with address. 8vo. Weimar 28.XI.1857. To the painter Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein in Munich. "The biographical sketch, which you gave me from Munich, I sent to the Grand Duke of Saxony Weimar. He read them with special interest and asked me to tell you this. - In Leipzig we stood in front of your beautiful altar leaf in the Catholic Church. - Just now I get cheap news from Wiesbaden from our friend Plötz. Today is his noble wife's day of death. She rests under her second snow. Göthe says: 'The hill protects against the winter' ...'. - Crack in the address sheet, otherwise well received. - Accompanied a eigh. Letter from the father of the poet, the Russian envoy Peter Friedrich von Maltitz (1753-1826). ==References== Language, probably to the publisher Frommann (2 p. double sheet. Gr. 4to. Karlsruhe 16./28. - On business matters. - This supplement somewhat tanned and flaky. - Also enclosed is a newspaper article from 1870 with obituary to Apollonius of Maltitz.