Letter from Ernst Friedrich Ludwig Robert to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, written from Berlin and dated 18 October 1808
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RA 5.1012, ‘Robert, Ernst Friederich Ludwig, 1808 Oktober 18, Berlin’
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Letter from Ernst Friedrich Ludwig Robert to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, written from Berlin and dated 18 October 1808
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Letter from Ernst Friedrich Ludwig Robert to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, written from Berlin and dated 18 October 1808.
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Robert opens by praising Goethe’s translations of Voltaire’s Tancrède and Mahomet, and sends his own translation of a recent French tragedy, Etienne Méhul’s Joseph en Égypte (1807) which he hopes to see performed under Goethe’s direction at the Weimar Theatre.
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18 October 1808
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