Once more a letter from Schiller’s daughter:
Greifenstein ob Bonnland, November 27, 1861
Here, honored young lady, is a page of Theodor Körner’s manuscript, which I have been endeavoring to get for you and which I succeeded in obtaining for you day before yesterday. A goodly ornament for your album, and I hasten to dispatch it to you, to afford you this pleasure while it is still November. I would gladly have sent it to you on the tenth,[[11]] but on that dear and sacred day it was not yet in my hands.
Begging that you too, as hitherto, will hold me in a friendly remembrance which shall bring us warmly together on every Schiller Day, I am with the deepest regard
Yours sincerely
Emilie von Gleichen-Russwurm
born von Schiller
Beside it, with the note “Original manuscript of Theodor Körner. Unpublished poem!” a much-yellowed sheet of coarse deckle-edged paper on which stand several stanzas with deletions and corrections:
Begeist’rung fasset mich mit heil’gem Glühn
A holy ardor seizes me and fills me