Album amicorum presented by Goethe to St. George Cromie, a member of Goethe's household, on Cromie's departure from Germany in 1826; the album contains inscriptions by Goethe and many of his friends in Weimar. Also miscellaneous papers and letters concerning Cromie which include an account of the provenance of the album and letters from army officers in Canada about the death of Cromie's brother, 1830. Bound with these papers is a wallet belonging to Goethe's son J.A.W. Goethe, evidently given to Cromie in 1826.
Papers of St. George Cromie
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- ReferenceGB 161 MSS. German c. 13, d. 5
- Dates of Creation19th-20th century
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- Language of MaterialGerman.
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Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
St. George Cromie (fl 1826-30) was a member of Goethe's household.
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Acquisition Information
Given to the Library in 1942.
Note
Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. II, nos. 47239-40.
Bibliography
See Elizabeth Blochmann, 'Goethe autographs in the album of an Irishman', Modern Language Review, 39 (1944), pp. 58-62.