Nov 14, 2024 - Sale 2686

Sale 2686 - Lot 127

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HARTMANN, EDUARD VON. Archive of over 30 Autograph Letters Signed, "Edward v. Hartmann," "Eduard," "Eduard v. H.," "E. v. Hartmann," or "E.v.H.," to Karl Korff ("Lieber Karl!"), in German, including a postcard addressed to "Charles Korff, Esq" in New York City, mostly on personal topics, but occasionally touching on political or philosophical subjects. Together over 100 pages, 8vo or 12mo, most written on folded sheet; many with moderate chipping to edges with minor loss to text, many with short separations at folds. Berlin or Bad Driburg, 1864-80
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15 March 1864: ". . . By the way, I am doing philosophy and all sorts of other sciences . . . ."
10 December 1864: ". . . For about 2.5 years I have been mainly occupied with philosophy, but also with other things, such as literary writings and art history, and I have also been involved with . . . magic, natural sciences, physiology . . . ."
20 December 1866: ". . . The whole zeal of the last edict of the political reformation of the modern world is left to the multi-minded . . . which, under the pressure of this task, invests its sweat in a military budget of hundreds of millions annually, while America uses all its effort for commercial . . . progress. I believe that no nation is better qualified to bring about this last edict of the political reformation than the nation of the emotionally inflated cosmopolitan . . . Germany. . . ."
21 June 1870: ". . . I am doubtful whether I should take up a new request . . . ; I would prefer to put it forward . . . that this would give you the inspiration to write a long article about my book. . . ."
22 February 1871: ". . . September I was overcome by the misery of doing nothing and I threw myself into abstruse philosophical studies and then started to complete a manuscript of 8 . . . sheets entitled 'The Thing in Itself' [Das Ding an sich und seine Beschaffenheit (1871)], in order to immediately send it to the press. . . ."
24 February 1877: ". . . I had included a manuscript for the New York State Newspaper [New York Staats Zeitung], about whose fate I would like to say something. I am better than I was in the autumn; sitting outside all winter has done me a lot of good. . . . My wife is suffering from her eyes this winter, probably also as a result of chronic carbon monoxide poisoning . . . ."
19 March 1878: ". . . I sent you in the first half of last year . . . a letter . . . two postcards and 2 documents containing my . . . publications 1) Neo-Kantianism, Schopenhauerism, Hegelianism [Neukantianismus, Schopenhauerismus, Hegelianismus (1877)] . . . . 2) The Unconscious from the Standpoint of Physiology and the Theory of Descent [Das Unbewusste vom Standpunkte der Physiologie und Descendenztheorie (1872)]. . . ."