The principles of the edition for series III are at the beginning of the first volume. This contains 144 letters from and to Schelling, 10 of which were previously unpublished, during his years of study in Tübingen, his time travelling as a private tutor, and in Leipzig as well as as from his first years as a professor in Jena. The letters which Schelling wrote to his parents while travelling can be read as a travel journal. Of special significance is the correspondence with Hegel, Fichte and the editors of the ›Allgemeinen Literatur-Zeitung‹, the letters to Niethammer and to his publisher Breitkopf & Härtel as well as letters from Steffens to Schelling. In order to provide an overview, a list of the individual letters and a table containing data on Schelling‹s life and work up to 1799 have been added.