Gutzkow, Karl, important liberal writer, playwright, critic and publicist, close to Junge Deutschland, sponsor Georg Büchners (1811-1878). Two. Letters from the U.S. "K. ==References== 21/2 S. Gr. 4to and/or gr. 8vo. Hamburg 31V.1840 and Sachsenhausen near Frankfurt 14V. 1878. The first letter to the director of the Stuttgart Hoftheater, Karl Graf Leutrum von Ertingen (1782-1842) to whom he sends the manuscript of his play "Werner oder Herz und Welt". "... Miss Stubenrauch becomes Ew. Excellently present a spectacle, which in three weeks experienced nine performances at overcrowded home. With the excellent staff of the stage entrusted to your management, it is to be expected that my Werner grade in Stuttgart would have to enjoy the most brilliant performance. But I guess I can count on it from Ew. Excellent this time to get a better fee granted when I received for the 'Savage'? From Munich I get ten Karolins for each of my pieces. I'm happy to leave the cast to the discernment of Ew. Excellent ..." [Hamburg 31.III.1840]. - The Schaupielerin Amalie von Stubenrauch (1800-1876) was not only the unlimited master of the Stuttgart court theatre, but also the mistress of King Wilhelm of Württemberg. - 38 years later, in Gutzkow's year of death, the second letter was written with a greatly changed text to a printer or publisher. Bande's preface. The preface would be printed with smaller fonts. It's not going to bother you. It immediately follows the foreword to the fifth edition. But I require the correction, which must be sent to me earlier ...". - Further detailed about an alleged assassination on the Russian tsar. - Included two printed articles about Gutzkov and three printed pictures, among them a quite good lithograph. - In addition: Bertha Gutzkow, the writer's wife (1829-1909). Eigh. Letter from the U.S. "Bertha Gutzkow". 3 p. Double leaf. Gr. 8vo. Pension Chemenin sur Vevey Canton de Vaud Suisse 3.I.1866. - Biographically valuable letter after the severe depression attack with suicide attempt of her husband. "... We have here with our children a pension, in the hope, the beauty of the surroundings and the disintegration from the nevertheless always exciting events of German life, in which Gutzkov otherwise took so lively part, will help to give his spirit again the old strength and to behave completely the dull, his mind-draining ideas, which made him last longer than Years in desperation chased him and deprived of his ability to account for his actions ...". - The outside sides of the double sheet flaky, perhaps caused by a printing plant.