The poor poet - a drama in one act from the German of Augustus von Kotzebue : as it was performed with unbound applause at the Adelphi Theatre : fragment of an autograph manuscript translation, [1830].

This translation is undated, however, in a letter to his mother dated December 31, 1830, postmarked Wiemar, Thackeray says "I have translated several things of Goethes[,] a play of Kotzebues [sic]--& am going to commence on a short history of Germany." (MA 476)