Karl Goedeke as literary critic Paalzow, Henriette, successful Berlin novelist and Salonnière, sister of the painter Karl Wilhelm Wach, friends with the Wilhelm von Humboldt family as well as with many artists and writers (1792-1847). Eigh. Letter from the U.S. "Henriette Paaltsow-Wach". 3 p. Double leaf, with the eigh. Cover. Gr. 8vo. (Berlin) 13.I.1845. Extensive letter to the courtbook dealer Hahn in Hanover, who had sent her reviews, of which she particularly liked the essay by Karl Goedeke (perhaps about her novel "Thomas Thyrnau"). "... I have read the criticism of Mr Gödecke with great attention and true anthem. The educated man, who keeps the brutalness of his colleges far away, gives him the respectfully researching gaze, which is so good to the author, because in this way every understanding is possible and achievable, and it is highly instructive and interessant to hear, as the stranger, who freshly approaches the work in its entirety, produces vision and primal salvation! Such criticism is put down with the desire to know the author, and to be able to speak with him with great difficulty about what he is presenting, guessing, leaving in doubt, rebuking or praising! - The thing for me is so much the main thing that I almost completely forget that I stand with him in such a close relationship - that what I am writing is so bitter as an intention out of me that I am like his The speaker almost in a suffering relationship to it - therefore, I urtheile afterwards as the viewer, and it is a pleasure for me to argue so quietly with an educated Kriticker about it! - How beautiful is the first sentence, with which Mr Gödeck initiates his views on Kritick - in the whole essay is such a true, educated, noble point of view, so it contains the true The author's need for criticism is that one might submit to such a pen with willing devotion ...". Expresses the desire to get to know Goedeke personally and adds: "... Never have I kept journals, and they just happened to read, this was not a special intention, but that my time was filled by other lectures. Since my own literary activity this principle - I only leave what others occasionally gave me! ...". - The famous bibliographer and editor Karl Goedeke published the "German weekly publication" in Hanover at that time. - From the Künzel Collection. - A portrait of Henriette Paalzow's steel engraving.