Schlichtegroll, Friedrich von, first biographer of Mozart, philologist, numismatist, archaeologist, librarian and general secretary of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, worked in Gotha and Munich, where he also headed the administration of the courtly coin cabinet (1765-1822). Eigh. Letter from the U.S. "Fr. Schlichtegroll". 2 p. 8vo. (Gotha) 9.II.1798. To a "beloved friend." Regretted to have pressed the friend with requests because of stagnant correspondence, e.g. "that I am now anxiously waiting for your Mspt. It hurts me in my soul when I think that you may have to take some nightly hours under the pressure of daily business to work the monument for your girlfriend right now; but I am nothing but a corpus intermedium that pushes there because it is pushed again ...". Reported on engagements and weddings of several girls the addressee had met. "... There is now no greater good in the world than a good wife. - If it is impossible for you to send me the biography of the noble Marianne before the 5-10th Merz, on the longest, then I must lift it up to a future supplement. But I'm not afraid of that; You will certainly make it possible. - What will the Rastädter [sic] peace bring you and us for fates? ...". Mentioned Friedrich Christoph Perthes, publisher of Schlichtegroll's annual "Necrolog".