"My
dearest friend, I have not yet thanked you for the songs you have
sent. Now I do so with the feeling of all the help and kindness you
have given me. I hope you will not reproach me for being a little
late. God knows, I often do not understand how to manage everything.
I will share your kind efforts with Superintendent [Johann Gottfried]
Herder. "
Fragment
of a letter from August Wilhelm Hupel to Fisher, February 6, 1778.
Quoted in: Beata Paškevica
Latviešu
tautasdziesmu teksti, to pierakstītāji un sūtītāji J.G.Herderam
"Tautasdziesmu" izdevuma vajadzībām. in: Vienotība un
atšķirība: Johana Gotfrīda Herdera filozofija. Ed. R. Bičevskis.
Riga 2017, p.
"Fisher
was a zealous collector; above all, he owned a collection of
several thousand engravings, now the property of the City Library, as
well as a collection of autographs, currently owned by our Society.
He also collected manuscripts, natural items and he had a good
library, the item list of which was printed at the site of the
auction in 1793 in Rujiena. "
[Fischer
war ein Mann von regem Sammeleifer; er besass ausserdem eine mehrere
Tausende zählende Sammlung von Kupferstichen Gelehrter, gleichfalls
Eigenthum der Stadtbibliothek, ferner Autographen Sammlung,
gegenwärtig unserer Gesellschaft angehörig. Daneben sammelte er
livländische Handschriften, auch Naturalien, und hatte eine gute
Bibliothek, deren Verzeichniss, zum Zweck der Versteigerung am
hiesigen Ort, 1793 zu Rujen gedruckt wurde,
in: August
Buchholtz. Zur Ikonographie der Ostseeprovinzen. Sitzungsberichte
der Gesellschaft für Geschichte...aus
dem Jahre 1876,
Riga, 1877, p.66 -67].