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English Goethe Society
GB 0367 EGS · 1886-1995

Archives of the English Goethe Gociety (EGS), 1886-1993, comprising:
Business records including annual statements of accounts, 1930-1931, 1945, 1950-1953, 1966, 1981; receipts, invoices, bank statements, and details of the Society's investments, 1929-1931;
Membership records including lists of Members and Council, 1886-1966, 1993?; proposal forms and related correspondence, 1936-1938; correspondence relating to resignations, 1932-1936;
Council minutes and papers, 1962-1972, 1992;
Annual Reports of EGS, 1886-1913 [incomplete]; the Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar, 1922-1923 and the Freies Deutsches Hochstift, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1911-1917;
General correspondence on EGS business, 1926-1930 [Where correspondence is of direct relevance to a set of documents it has been placed with those documents rather than in this class];
Correspondence and papers on EGS activities, including records of ordinary meetings, 1897-1993; records relating special events and anniversaries, 1899-1982, including 150th anniversary of the birth of Goethe, 1899; the dedication of the Goethe Memorial on Frankfurt-am-Main, 1904, the Goethe Centenary, 1932; EGS 50th anniversary, 1936; the Goethe Bicentenary celebrations, 1949; the 150th anniversary of the death of Schiller, 1955; and the 150th anniversary of the death of Goethe, 1982;
Correspondence and papers relating th EGS Prizes, the English Goethe Society (later the Willoughby) Prize 1977-1995 and the Thmas Mann Prize, 1988-1992;
Miscellaneous papers including book reviews, newscuttings, personal memorabilia of Goethe such as a lock of his hair, and two original contemporary signed and dated silhouettes of Goethe and Charlotte von Stein, printed and published items.

English Goethe Society