Jacob Grimm | Autograph letter signed, December 1850

Jacob Grimm

Autograph letter signed ("Jacob Grimm"), to an unidentified correspondent ("Hochgeehrter Herr College")

reproaching him for not answering his admonishing letter of a few weeks ago, stressing the trouble this matter has caused him, and stating that he knows no reason why he should not have paid him the six thalers which became due three months ago

...ich verdiene nicht, dass Sie meinen vor einigen Wochen geschriebenen Mahnbrief unberücksichtigt lassen. Diese Angelegenheit gibt mir so viel Mühe...

1 page, 8vo (20.8 x 12.6cm), no place [Berlin], 24 [?] December 1850, crease to inner margin, a couple of very small tears to leading edge, very slightly affecting text in one place

together with: a copy of a printed talk given by Grimm on the centenary of Schiller's birth, inscribed by Grimm on the upper wrapper to his friend Ernst Rudorff ("seinem freunde Rudorff..."): Rede auf Schiller. Gehalten in der feierlichen Sitzung der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften am 10 November 1859, Berlin: Gedruckt in der Druckerei der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1859, 23 pages, 4to, original grey wrappers, some light spotting, creased; and a manuscript note in an unidentified hand itemising some remarks by W. Grimm for the printer ("Bemerkungen von W. Grimm für den Stecher"), 1 page, cut down from a larger leaf (15 x 21.5), no place or date

Formerly in the collection of the Berlin pianist and composer Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916).