1983 - Carl August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

Carl August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Official letter to the City Council of Buttstadt, originally signed by Christian Friedrich Carl Baron Wolfskeel von Reichenberg, Chancellor of Weimar. Dated March 11, 1812. Small folio, 1 page, double-sheet with address on the reverse and a paper-covered seal. A letter from the Duke’s State Chancellery concerning a matter related to the Napoleonic Wars. It was noted with displeasure that the second town bailiff of Buttstadt, Johann August Reimann, had exploited the “inconveniences on the part of the local citizenry” arising from the quartering obligation “during the frequent marches of foreign troops currently taking place” to to repeat his request for dismissal (after it had previously been rejected). The request was rejected once again, and the citizens were threatened with imprisonment should they rebel against future quartering. The first city magistrate, Johann David Gottlob Frohwein, is instructed to “faithfully assist Reimann in the matter of quartering.” Reimann, however, succeeded in resigning from the city council in 1812. - On bluish handmade paper bearing a watermark of the Saxon coat of arms. R