[Footnote 25:  Giovanni Hamerani was papal die-cutter from 1675 to 1705.]

[Footnote 26:  A C. A. Bottiger had surrendered his position as director of the Gymnasium of Weimar and had gone to Dresden, while Heinrich Voss (1779-1822), an enthusiastic young admirer of Goethe, had come to the gymnasium.]

[Footnote 27:  An association of civil officials of Mannheim had intrusted to Goethe a sum of money to erect a memorial to Count von Dalberg, but the plan was never carried out.]

[Footnote 28:  a Theodor Koerner (1791-1813), at that time a dramatist in Vienna, and closely connected with the Humboldt family through Wilhelm’s friendship for Christian G. Koerner.]

[Footnote 29:  J. H. Voss, although his translation of AEschylus was not printed until 1826.]

[Footnote 30:  Humboldt’s translation of the Agamemnon of AEschylus.]

[Footnote 31:  Voss and his son.]

[Footnote 32:  August, who went to Italy, in March, 1830, and died there eight days after this letter was written.]

[Footnote 33:  Schiller died May 9, 1805]

[Footnote 34:  By Calderon]

[Footnote 35:  Zelter’s eldest son had shot himself.]