![WIELAND, Christoph Martin (1733-1813). Autograph letter signed to his mother, Regina Katharina Wieland, Ettersburg, near Weimar, n.d. [c. 1772?], announcing that he is staying with Anna Amalia, the Duchess of Sachsen-Weimar, at her castle in Ettersburg, that the Weather is terrible, but there is a marvellous small theatre at the castle, one page, 8vo (180 x 113mm), with another person's greetings on verso "Liebe Mutter ich und mein Esel sind auch da!"](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1995/CKS/1995_CKS_05424_0436_000(103242).jpg?w=1)
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WIELAND, Christoph Martin (1733-1813). Autograph letter signed to his mother, Regina Katharina Wieland, Ettersburg, near Weimar, n.d. [c. 1772?], announcing that he is staying with Anna Amalia, the Duchess of Sachsen-Weimar, at her castle in Ettersburg, that the Weather is terrible, but there is a marvellous small theatre at the castle, one page, 8vo (180 x 113mm), with another person's greetings on verso "Liebe Mutter ich und mein Esel sind auch da!"
In 1772 Wieland published a political novel Der Goldene Spiegel, which influenced Anna Amalia to appoint him as a tutor to her sons and join the court at Weimar. The letter opens 'Liebes Mütterchen, wir sind hier bey Ihrer und unserer Herzogin, der einzigen und ewigen Königin unserer freyen Herzen, auf der hohen Ettersburg: und leben da fern vom Erdengetümmel, das selige Leben der Götter im Himmel, ausser dass es verd.. garstig unfreundlich Wetter ist'. APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED.
In 1772 Wieland published a political novel Der Goldene Spiegel, which influenced Anna Amalia to appoint him as a tutor to her sons and join the court at Weimar. The letter opens 'Liebes Mütterchen, wir sind hier bey Ihrer und unserer Herzogin, der einzigen und ewigen Königin unserer freyen Herzen, auf der hohen Ettersburg: und leben da fern vom Erdengetümmel, das selige Leben der Götter im Himmel, ausser dass es verd.. garstig unfreundlich Wetter ist'. APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED.