You are bidding on one handwritten, signed letter of the publisher and politician Georg von Cotta (1796-1863).
Dated S. (=Stuttgart), 14. April 1842.
Aimed at the baronial of Cotta'sche Rentamt in Dotternhausen near Balingen.
Affects a marethat he received from Country chief stable master Eduard Albert von Reischach (1797-1861) was offered for purchase. He was a brother of his brother-in-law Hermann von Reischach (1798-1876), husband of his sister Ida von Reischach, née. von Cotta (1806-1862), who ran the Cotta publishing house with him.
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"My brother-in-law's brother and the country chief stable master, Rittmeister Fhr. Reichach, has a beautiful English mare in foal for sale. She is Braun , without markings, and would fit well into our train as soon as she brings the foal and at the same time be a good fit for the offspring.
Since I now have in mind to gradually move on to 4-6 capable mother mares and to keep a foal garden, I think we should not pass up the opportunity to buy this animal.
Mr. v. R. demands 36 Louis for it. On the other hand, could you give away one of your less capable steeds, or are you missing one in the train? In short, do you know ways and means to buy this horse?
Mr. v. R. does not require payment immediately. I would like to switch to feeding ground Haber and have my own people do the grinding using a hand mill.
How big are the Ebinger hand mills? How many people have to stand next to them to grind? where could you put them?
Which of the servants would have time to grind? Couldn't the gristmill be placed in the sawmill? You think about and prepare all of these things so that I can find sufficient notes from you to make a decision about purchasing such a hand-held grist mill.
Regarding the pregnant mare and its purchase, I would like to answer pr. letter mail,as soon as as possible.
The country chief stable master v. Reischach will take me to Dotthsn this summer. visit, and with him I will then make a final decision regarding the foal garden to be created once you have carried out the examinations that were assigned to you yesterday.
Just make sure that the groom and the people are always strong, capable people."
Signed "George v. C."
With note from the recipient: "received d. 16. answered d. 17. delivered to the post office d. 18. April."
Scope: a text page (27.5 x 21.8 cm), two blank pages and an address page.
Format (folded): 12.8 x 8.7 cm.
Stationery with a small blind seal (with initials GC).
Posted; with blurred postmark "STUTTGART 14. APR. 1842."
Condition: Thin paper browned and slightly wrinkled. bplease note the pictures too!
Internal note: Ostbhf Vorphila 23-10-08 (3) Autograph Autograph Adel
About Georg von Cotta (Source: wikipedia & NDB):
Johann Georg Freiherr Cotta von Cottendorf (*19. July 1796 in Tübingen; † 1. February 1863 in Stuttgart) was a German publisher and politician.
Life and publishing work: Cotta von Cottendorf was born as the son of Wilhelmine and Johann Friedrich Cotta and began studying philosophy, aesthetics and political science in Göttingen, Heidelberg and Tübingen from 1815 to 1817, but did not complete it due to illness. It was not until 1819 that he was healthy enough to take up professional work. He initially considered a diplomatic career as secretary to Baron Karl August von Wangenheim. He then accompanied August Heinrich von Trott zu Solz to Vienna to the negotiations on the final act of the German Bundestag. In 1821, Cotta resigned from the diplomatic service as a legation councilor to work for his father's publishing house.
From 1824 onwards he edited the “Morning Journal for the Educated Classes” together with his father for four years and gradually took over his father's tasks. After his death in 1832, he took over the family business together with his brother-in-law Hermann von Reischach and headed it for 30 years. He was the founder and editor of the German Quarterly.
The companies Göschen from Leipzig and the Vogelsche Bible Institute from Landshut were merged into the Cotta publishing house. Cotta gained the following new authors for the publisher, among others: Nikolaus Lenau, Eduard Mörike, Gottfried Kinkel, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Franz von Dingelstedt, Friedrich Hebbel, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Karl Simrock, Emanuel Geibel and Heinrich Heine.
Politics: In 1820 and from 1833 to 1849 he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Württemberg State Parliament as a representative of the knighthood of the Black Forest District. In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament.
Honors: On the 31st In December 1828, Ludwig I awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown.
The plant genera Cottea Kunth from the sweet grass family (Poaceae) and Cottendorfia Schult.f are named after him. from the bromeliad family (Bromeliaceae).
Cotta von Cottendorf, Johann Georg Freiherr, publisher, * July 19, 1796 Tübingen, † February 1, 1863 Stuttgart. (evangelical)
Genealogy: V →Joh. Fr. s. (1); ⚭ Frankfurt/Main 1820 Sophie (1801–38), T of →Justinian Fr. v. Adlerflycht (1761–1831), senator in Frankfurt and Hessian envoy, and Susanna v. Giant (1775–1846);
3 S, 6 T, among others →Carl (1835–88), continued the publishing house, initially with his Vt →Albert v. Reischach (1826–76), with A. Kröner, C. founded the Cottaschen “Bibl. of World Literature", in 1879 the printing press and in 1889 the publishing house passed to Adolf Kröner, and in 1955 to a consortium of Stuttgart publishers.
Biography: Due to weak health, C. was unable to complete his studies in philosophical, aesthetic and political sciences in Göttingen, Heidelberg and Tübingen in 1815-17. A trip to Rome in 1817/18 brought improvement, but it was not until 1819 that he was able to practice his profession regularly and initially devoted himself to a diplomatic career as secretary of the Württemberg Bundestag mission under Baron KA von Wangenheim, a friend of his father. At the end of the same year he went to Vienna in the same capacity under August Heinrich von Trott zu Solz, where the final act of the German Bundestag was being negotiated. In 1821 he resigned from the diplomatic service as a legation councilor in order to devote himself to the publishing house “not by free choice, but by the will of his father”. From 1824-28 he edited the “Morgenblatt” with his father and grew increasingly into the role of deputy and successor in the entire management. At the end of 1832, when his father died, he and his brother-in-law Hermann von Reischach took over the family business, which had been heavily indebted in the last years of JF Cotta's life, and restructured the publishing house with great care by selling all non-bookseller branches with the exception of the country estates, so that it was then crisis-free To continue at the height achieved for 30 years. He incorporated two important companies, Göschen in Leipzig and the Vogelsche Bible Institute in Landshut, into his own company.
His particular interests, which were deepened through the diplomatic service, lay in the field of politics. As the top director of the “Allgemeine Zeitung” and as the founder and editor of the “German Quarterly” (1838-70), he gained particular importance in the political life of his time. Like his father, he was a member of the second chamber of the Württemberg state parliament (1833-49 ), where he was primarily involved in advising on economic issues. The King of Bavaria gave him the title of Chamberlain.
In book publishing, he continued the tradition of classics, which he broadened through the “People's Library of German Classics” and important illustrated editions, and deepened it through his work on Goethe's posthumous works and the first critical-historical Schiller edition. He gained new authors in the literary field from Lenau, Mörike, Kinkel, Freiligrath, Dingelstedt, Hebbel, die Droste, Simrock and Geibel. Heine was closely connected to him through the “Allgemeine Zeitung”. He gave the scientific branch new importance through the complete works of A. von Humboldt and WH Riehl, with whom he was close friends, as well as through important works by List, Roscher, L. von Stein, Ranke and Gregorovius, some of which were inspired by him.
Piety, a lively but not narrow national feeling, a strong sense of duty and responsibility and always maintained dignity made him a “complete man in our time of fluctuating half-natures” (Schäffle), who enjoyed an almost princely position and respect in public.