Forty important first and early editions of German writers have been presented to the Harvard Library by Mrs. J. Montgomery Sears of Boston. These volumes include sixteen works by Schiller, eighteen by Goethe, and works by Lessing, Heine, Uhland and Burger, as well as many others. The Library now has but one of the editions of Faust published during Goethe's life, and a collection of about 20,000 titles of strictly German literature in the Library.
The basis of the collection of German literature in the Library is formed by a large number of German publications of about 150 years ago sent to America at that time by Professor Ebeling of Hamburg, who was writing an encyclopedic work on America in exchange for every sort of book dealing with American life.
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