Meißner, August Gottfried, writer, librettist, criminal writer, publicist and university professor of aesthetics and classical literature in Prague (1753-1807). Eigh. Letter m. U. "Mßr". 4 pp., closely described. Double leaf. 8vo. Dresden 6.VI.1784. Extensive letter to a writer, with a variety of information and gossip from the literature scene. Mentioned Nicolai, Wieland, Lessing, Goeckingk and G.A. citizens. Announces his visit at the Leipziger Messe: "... I want to bring you from the measurement, everything that is good for her. For the tremendously strong catalogue of measurements, a poor co-author, like Israel, makes the Gothiter quake for Goliad. Also, in spite of its size, it is almost nothing more than a giant, which a pebble killed ... Germany's Litteratur must finally be destroyed by the scribeship of unmanned boys. I was introduced into it's penalism, with which the Hanseatic cities once sought to alleviate the alzu over-excited tendency to buymanship. Lübeck once regalized the king of Denmark with the fact that he had some iung merchants in his face stunned with Ruthen. Leipzig could diverge twenty travelling Dukes of Würtemberg, Weimar p. with author Staup Bsen. - That Archenhol[t]z has indented your Plutus p., you can see from the following pieces, which he gave me for you; your poem to me is also No. 3 printed, but I don't know why he must have forgotten to hand in a copy of it to me. My thoughts? I'm glad. However, the iung man has talent; but the delusion is much more, and it spoils him. For Vienna, he is, of course, the first poet, since Denis is silent. In Berlin he would be the fifth, sixth seyn ...". Talks then about the ignorance of German literature in the Netherlands and mentions Nicolai, Wieland, Lessing, Goeckingk and G.A. citizens. "... Goecking[k]'s journal is still spinning around in my journalistic strudel; but his poems, third part, I end with; the first two were merely intended for letters. I've got so much to be ashamed of against a little teasing poet than against Goeckingk. I've been guilty of answering him for years on four letters... I know nothing about Bürger's new edition. Perhaps I will speak to his publisher Diet[e]rich ... I certainly bring the journal with me; for I have already received the 8th sheet today ... Her two poems are already printed ...". - Meißner, whose operettas were successfully played, is also considered the inventor of the genre of the crime story in Germany. - Very rare.