Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, poet and statesman (1749-1832). Letter m. U. "Goethe". 1 p. Double sheet with address and paper-covered seal. Folio. Weimar 4.VI.1782. As chairman of the "Fürstlich Sächsische Kriegs-Commission" to the Weimar City Council, because of a Prussian deserter who had returned to his hometown Weimar. Prussia. War services deserted, Johann Adam Höhne, before Fürstl. War-Commission here itself duly refuses, asks for the transfer of his property, and assures Dabey that he will settle down in this princely country and want to prove himself as a faithful Unterthan in the future: This is the case on the part of Fürstl. War-commission, not to claim his fortune, has been resolvired and remains such to the city-rathe, all here ... for further supply, by oscillating behavior ...". - With presentation note of 5. June 1782. - Stronger tanned and with small damage to the left margin, outside the writing. - In January 1779 Goethe had among other things taken over the leadership of the war commission. On the eve of the present letter Goethe had received the nobility diploma issued to him by Emperor Joseph II. - Very rare so early.