STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1453, sig. 109-4/1207 (damaged)

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one pulled him down from below, but the other Dalberg let the poet know by the director Meyer, the grief lifted him up, became stronger and more demanding and kept him alive, the play "Fiesko" was not useful in the present rework, he had already been willing to throw away. Although the bitter therefore could not accept the same, nor be somewhat remunerated days full of discouragement and mediocrity alike; but be. — then the thirty guilders, whom the honest and so faithful strings had asked for from his mother, had arrived, and one could have considered, Although even this decision, which was crushing for each other, had not been able to break the pride of the noble soul of the poet, to live there cheaper and more comfortable than in the expensive Frankfurt, in order to remember, even if it was terrible to him, what he first wanted to rework and bury the "fiesko" since the flight, as desired. — from Stuttgart to hope, work, time, money the last two months- The director Meyer had pointed out Oggersheim, a small one had sacrificed by, in order then only flattering, empty, smooth, hollow towns, an hour away from Mannheim. Words about it to get, but no deed, no help, not the trace of appreciable compensation. All this was enough, a generous heart So Schiller and Streicher had moved to Oggersheim and to be grounded. However, they had no syllable of indignation about the will had moved into the inn "Zum Viehhof" quarters. In order to hear from him the greater short-term treatment; he had contented himself with safety's sake and in order to cover up all traces Schiller had to express himself against Meyer: he had to regret that he had not already settled the name Schmidt. — The abode was more than miserable, which had travelled from Frankfurt to Saxony. - Then he had very limited this by means, one could calculate how long the moment would be best done and the book dealer Schwan would pass the "fiesko" for thirty guilders. One slept in a joint bed offered the pressure. This, both as a scholar and as a publisher in and saved at the food as much as one could. — Now he would have made calls of a fine man, had, after having taken note of the "fiesko" had to put himself, in order to promote it and then possibly of the content, immediately offered to make the printed sheet with a Louisdor to money; but since the departure from Mannheim had honored him and immediately paid the author ten Louisdore, just Genius at the booze and put it in a completely different field, so much so to let said chalk strokes be wiped out and a few necessary and now he lived in the bourgeois mourning play, the "Luise Millerin" . He was able to buy clothes for the winter. - According to situation of things the new piece had been able to promote well. Strings had now become on the little one another lingering in the pialz unnecessary and meaningless. — Piano, which had participated in all times of adventurous escape, He was now again in the middle of the stream; he grasped it and drove it on. and the scenes were well advanced. -- End of October Where is a shore on which he can land — that offers salvation and mountains then the small barge was melted together. There he had himself before the tearing, pulling down element? - In this abandonment he was now torn away from the bourgeois game and thought of the "fiesko" of an offering that still made him in Stuttgart, when the thought was made, but reluctant enough, without feeling any attraction. the escape had appeared in him, the mother of a comrade on the Also there was still doubts as to which life outcome he had made dom academy. — Mrs. Henriette von Wolzug, owner of Helden. - Towards November 8th, he had finally taken the knightly estate of Bauerbach near Meiningen, saw after the early death the cleanly written manuscript brought to Mannheim to Meyer, her husband in possession of very moderate means, which were too small, one of which was to pass it on to the Baron of Dalberg. And then her four sons and a daughter had been properly reared in the house at the time of waiting.The daughter was accommodated in a boarding house in Hildburghausen with the help of the Duchess of Gotha, an eight-day old Dalberg had the handwriting with him, and still Meiningian princess, he had not been comfortable with an answer. Streicher's guides, while the sons of the Duke of Wuerttemberg, ran into a slight year-on-year danger; Schiller had withdrawn from his watch to receive money in his Stuttgart military academy. With the eldest of the sons, Wilhelm, Schiller had eight school years together to stretch the small cash funds a little; after all, one had to ask the host to cremate the lodge and mine. Yes, Streicher had gone, broke; the young people had been quite indifferent to each other - although it was hard to get to him, they had seen the quarters in the "Viehhof" standing and had usually left, while the mother, living alternately in Bauerbach and in Stuttgart, had to give up a lively share of the skill and to move into a cheap room in the place. In this arduous need, Schiller had sent a letter to the Mannheimer Intendant: the much-named dense military student and later regiment medikus took. This, again, from an early age after a woman's affection, "I am currently living in the greatest expectation, as Your Excellency found my "fiesko", and as ever demanding my preconditions and warmth, grateful for every sign of a favor, looked at the play confirmed or not confirmed .. When yours ascended in watchful veneration to the woman, who was fourteen years older. Her Excellency, even now, had offered no decision on the ability of the theatre at the time to prepare for escape, but as long as he could give it from the same side, I would only ask myself to fear the judgment of the Duke to be persecuted, on her good in the dramaturgen at all, which will be extremely welcome to me. Now that the Homeland I logize here in the Viehhof under the name Schmidt, if your Excellency needed a place of refuge loosely, he remembered this offer to honor me with an answer." - She came a short time afterwards; and asked the unselfish and daring protector in Stuttgart not to leave him in need and to take him in. - So he had 706 707