Scope and Contents: Letter of Leopold von Ranke to his publisher, George Reimer, in which he discusses his Geschichten der romanischen und germanischen Vlker von 1494 bis 1514, his apprehensions about state censorship, and his method of citation as used in the book.
Holograph, signed.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Provenance: Purchased by the University of Illinois History Dept. from a Frankfurt bookseller in 1912 -- Transferred to the University of Illinois Library, 14 October 1930.
Modern transcript and translation (typescripts) laid in.
Former shelfmark: Ms 45 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).
Former shelfmark: x B.R199r1 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).
Ford, Guy Stanton. "A Ranke Letter." Journal of Modern History 32, no. 2 (1960): 142-144.
Grafton, Anthony. The Footnote: A Curious History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997, p. 63-64.
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