GERMAN LITERATURE -- LATE 19th CENTURY. A collection of approximately 17 autograph letters signed, comprising letters by Rachel VARNHAGEN VON ENSE (n.p., 9 December 1824, requesting help for two distressed women, one page, oblong 8vo), Ludwig BOERNE (Baden bei Rastadt, 31 May 1831, explaining his technique for remembering to write letters, one page, oblong 4to), Johann Peter Eckermann (Weimar, 7 June 1843, about a court action against Brockhaus [publisher of his Gespräche mit Goethe], 2 pages, 4to), Justinus KERNER (Weinsberg, 12 June 1852, sending a 'Gedenkblatt' for a child, and asking the recipient for a visit on a fine day, 2 pages, 8vo, on green paper), Heinrich MANN (postcard to Günther Koch, 6 March 1899, referring to the journals of August von Platen), Ferdinand Kürnberger (1871, a diatribe against the French, a 'celtisches Irländer-Gesindel, ein Thierhaufen, wollüstig, grausam, eitel, u. von einem Egoisumus, welcher selbst unter Thieren nur den gefrässigsten Gattungen zukommt'), Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Gustav Freytag (Leipzig, 15 December 1864), Heinrich Zschokke (1 January 1808, asking if his young son may bring a present), Heinrich Laube (referring to his play Demetrius), Josef Victor von Scheffel (autograph sentiment signed, 2 May 1885), Daniel Sanders (1871), Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt, Wolfgang Menzel (poem) and Kristian Morgenstiern. (15)