A Grand Dutchess: The Life of Anna Amalia Volume II

By: Frances Gerard

Taken from the Volume I Preface: My acknowledgments are due to many kind helpers, and in a special manner to Herr von Bojanowski, director of the Grand Ducal library at Weimar and to Herr Bernard Suphan, Goethe and Schiller Archiv., Weimar ; also the eminent bookseller, Joseph Baer of Frankfurt, has been of infinite service to me. I may add that the late Grand Duke of Weimar, Carl Alexander, took a personal interest in the biography of Anna Amalia, to whose memory he was devoted, and who is now introduced to English readers for the first time.