[Ulrike von Pogwisch, sister of Goethe's daughter-in-law, latterly Prioress of St John's Monastery, Schleswig.] Autograph Note Signed ('Ulrike v Pogwisch'), in English, [to Lady Ann Cullum], expressing pleasure at making her acquaintance.

Author: 
Ulrike von Pogwisch (1798-1875), sister of the daughter-in-law of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from 1864 Prioress of St. John's Monastery, Schleswig [Lady Ann Cullum of Hardwick House]
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[Carlsbad]; nor date ('at 12 oClock').
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3pp, 16mo. Bifolium. Aged and ruckled, with light damp staining. No salutation, but apparently complete. From the papers of Lady Ann Cullum (1807-1875), wife of Rev. Sir Thomas Gery Cullum of Hardwick House. ]Begins: 'I am very sorry, that I could not keep my promise to day to call upon You, - Believe me that it was impossible, but I cant leave Carlsbad without telling You at least how glad I waws to have made Your acquaintances. I hope we shall meet again, & I shall always remember with the greatest pleasure the few hours I passed in Your society.' She ends with her 'best compliments to Miss Hood'. In a postscript she explains thsat 'Miss Vavasour promised me to correct these lines, that you could understand them.' After writing the time she sends her compliments to the recipient's brother. In a contemporary hand, at the head of a blank page: 'Madme de Goethe's Sister'. For Goethe and the Pogwisch family see Sylke Kaufmann, 'Henriette von Pogwisch und ihre Französische Lesegesellschaft: ein Beitrag zur Weimarer Kultur in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts; mit einem Exkurs zum Wirken Goethes in der Lesegesellschaft' (1994).