Goethekreis. - Schopenhauer, Adele, writer and Scherenschnitt artist, friends with Goethe, daughter of Johanna Schopenhauer and sister of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhäuer (1797-1849). Eigh. Letter m. U. "Adele". 2 p. Double sheet (pink paper) with address. Kl. 8vo. Jena 13.XII. (probably around 1840). To the important painter Louise Seidler (1786-1866) in Weimar. "The message you give me destroys all my plans. All my suitcases and boxes were already in Weimar, but I have to fear that if Preller is also besser, it may take several weeks after the Pogvish letter before he corrects and cares for me. Since I was thinking of travelling to the Rhine on April 1st because of the causes that I will give you orally, manyicht [sic] is now changing my entire stay there, postponed - if not now impossible before the trip! Thun me the only love to write me Saturday again a few words as it goes. - How much you yourself take me I may not say at all, if you had lost the friend, it would have been too horrible! ... The Mertens once again wrote around the album page. What am I supposed to answer, since she knows nothing about the pilgrim ...". - The signature "Adele" has been supplemented, perhaps by the addressee, with the name "Schopenhauer". - By "Preller" the Weimar painter Friedrich Preller d. E. (1804-1878) is meant. "Die Mertens" is Sybille Mertens-Schaaffhausen, Adele's girlfriend from 1826 and later life partner.