[Sophie von LA ROCHE (1730-1807)]. Manuscript, Extraits divers de Sophie de La Roche; small in-4 paperback, approx. 200 pages. There are several different handwritings in these extracts from German, English and French authors: Schiller's Don Carlos, Heinrich Voss's Abschied von Hector und Andromache and Bitaubé's French version, Marie-Joseph Chénier's Le dernier hymne d'Ossian, Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard and Colardeau's French version, other texts and poems by Alexandre Soumet, La Harpe, Sapho, Gresset, Millevoye, Marmontel, l'abbé Morellet, Mme d'Houdetot, André Chénier, Mme de Salm, Béranger, Viennet, Casimir Delavigne, de Jouy, Desbordes-Valmore, Lamartine and others. [Sophie von La Roche, née Guterman von Gutershofen, was the grandmother of Clemens Brentano and Bettina von Arnim, and Wieland's lover. She had a renowned salon, frequented by Goethe among others, and published numerous works, including epistolary novels such as Mémoires de mademoiselle de Sternheim].