[11.] Longo was unable to find one of these once so popular snuff-boxes,—a rather remarkable fact. There is, however, a picture of one at the end of the chapter “Yorick,” p. 15 in Göchhausen’s M . . . . R . . . .,—a small oval box. Emil Kuh, in his life of Fredrich Hebbel (1877, I, pp. 117–118) speaks of the Lorenzodose as “dreieckig.” A chronicler in Schlichtegroll’s “Nekrolog,” 1792, II, p. 51, also gives rumor of an order of “Sanftmuth und Toleranz, der eine dreyeckigte Lorenzodose zum Symbol führte.” The author here is unable to determine whether this is a part of Jacobi’s impulse or the initiative of another.
[12.] Fourth Edition. Berlin and Stettin, 1779, III, p. 99.
[13.] “Christopher Kaufmann, der Kraftapostel der Geniezeit” von Heinrich Düntzer, Historisches Taschenbuch, edited by Fr. v. Raumer, third series, tenth year, Leipzig, 1859, pp. 109–231. Düntzer’s sources concerning Kaufmann’s life in Strassburg are Schmohl’s “Urne Johann Jacob Mochels,” 1780, and “Johann Jacob Mochel’s Reliquien verschiedener philosophischen pädogogischen poetischen und andern Aufsätze,” 1780. These books have unfortunately not been available for the present use.
[14.] For account of Leuchsenring see Varnhagen van Ense, “Vermischte Schriften”, I. 492–532.
[15.] Schlichtegroll’s “Nekrolog,” 1792, II, pp. 37 ff. There is also given here a quotation written after Sterne’s death, which is of interest:
“Wir erben, Yorick, deine Dose,
Auch deine Feder erben wir;
Doch wer erhielt im Erbschaftsloose
Dein Herz? O Yorick, nenn ihn mir!”
[16.] Works of Friedrich von Matthison, Zürich, 1825, III, pp. 141 ff., in “Erinnerungen,” zweites Buch. The “Vaterländische Besuche” were dated 1794.