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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Letter signed ('J.W. v. Goethe') to an unidentifed recipient [the bankers Frege & Co. of Leipzig], Weimar, 29 September 1830, requesting them to honour a pay order of 365 Thalers Saxon in favour of the banker Julius Elkan on the account of the book dealers J.G. Cotta in Stuttgart, the subscription and date in autograph, one page, 4to, on a bifolium.
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