[245] Corr., i. 223 (to Vernes, April 5, 1755).
[246] Conf., viii. 215, 216. Corr., i. 218 (to Perdriau, Nov. 28, 1754).
[247] Conf., viii. 218.
[248] Conf., viii. 217. It is worth noticing as bearing on the accuracy of the Confessions, that Madame d'Epinay herself (Mém., ii. 115) says that when she began to prepare the Hermitage for Rousseau he had never been there, and that she was careful to lead him to believe that the expense had not been incurred for him. Moreover her letter to him describing it could only have been written to one who had not seen it, and though her Memoirs are full of sheer imagination and romance, the documents in them are substantially authentic, and this letter is shown to be so by Rousseau's reply to it.
[249] Mém., ii. 116.
[250] Corr. (1755), i. 242.
[251] Corr., i. 245.
[252] Phædrus, 230.
[253] Conf., viii. 221, etc.