SCHILLER, Friedrich von (1759-1805). Autograph letter signed ('S.') to an unidentified recipient [his friend Christian Gottfried Körner], Rudolstadt, 1 October 1788, four pages, 4to (small surface loss to last page), later numbering in pencil and red ink to upper margin of first page. Provenance: Sotheby's, 18 May 1989, lot 330.
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SCHILLER, Friedrich von (1759-1805). Autograph letter signed ('S.') to an unidentified recipient [his friend Christian Gottfried Körner], Rudolstadt, 1 October 1788, four pages, 4to (small surface loss to last page), later numbering in pencil and red ink to upper margin of first page. Provenance: Sotheby's, 18 May 1989, lot 330.

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SCHILLER, Friedrich von (1759-1805). Autograph letter signed ('S.') to an unidentified recipient [his friend Christian Gottfried Körner], Rudolstadt, 1 October 1788, four pages, 4to (small surface loss to last page), later numbering in pencil and red ink to upper margin of first page. Provenance: Sotheby's, 18 May 1989, lot 330.

LITERARY PLANS AFTER A PERIOD OF ILLNESS. Schiller has been suffering from rheumatic fever associated with a toothache, but is now improving. He hopes that Körner has suffered no relapse in his own illness in particular because he urges upon him the importance of busying himself with writing, 'gewiß ist diß das souveraine Mittel dein Gesundheit zu verbessern', lamenting his friend's lack of drive in this sense, 'es ist ein Unglück für dich, das dich der Hunger nicht zum Schreiben zwingt'. For his own part, he has nothing much to be proud of in his recent activity, but he determines to devote himself more and more to his creative vocation:

'Zwar was diesen Sommer betrifft kann ich mich nicht sehr mit meiner Arbeitsamkeit glorieren ... Ich fühle doch wirklich dass ich mit den Fortschritten der Zeit manches gewinne, und manches abstosse, was nicht gut ist ... Besonders merke ich mir mehr und mehr an, dass ich mich von kleinen Leidenschaften erhebe ... Ich werde mich immer mehr und mehr auf mich selbst einschränken, und kleine Verhältnisse absterben, dass ich die ganze Kraft meines Wesens so wie meine ganze Zeit rette'.

The letter ends with reference to progress on his Revolt of the Netherlands, his forthcoming review in the Allgemeine Literarische Zeitung of Goethe's Egmont, and his resumption of work on Thalia.

Published in the Nationalausgabe, no.90.
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