This volume contains 233 letters from Goethe's personal and official correspondence of 1796 addressed to 51 recipients, in addition to 25 concepts for 24 letters that have been transmitted as copies. It also examines 65 further letters. Compared to previous editions, this volume provides new, more precise, and corrected dates for roughly one-fifth of the letters.

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Jutta Eckle and Georg Kurscheidt, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Goethe and Schiller Archive, Weimar, Germany.