[47.] “Herder’s Briefwechsel mit seiner Braut, April, 1771, to April, 1773,” edited by Düntzer and F. G. von Herder, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1858, pp. 247 ff.
[48.] See Frankfurter Gel. Anz., 1774, February 22.
[49.] Kürschner edition of Goethe, Vol. XXII, pp. 146–7.
[50.] See introduction by Dünster in the Kürschner edition, XIII, pp. 137 ff., and that by Fr. Strehlke in the Hempel edition, XVI. pp. 217 ff.
[51.] Kürschner edition, Vol. XXIV, p. 15; Tag- und Jahreshefte, 1789.
[52.] “Goethe’s Romantechnik,” Leipzig, 1902. The author here incidentally expresses the opinion that Heinse is also an imitator of Sterne.
[53.] Julius Goebel, in “Goethe-Jahrbuch,” XXI, pp. 208 ff.
[54.] See Euphorion, IV, p. 439.
[55.] Eckermann, III, p. 155; Biedermann, VI, p. 272.
[56.] Eckermann, III, p. 170; Biedermann, VI, p. 293.