[92] Werke, Briefe, Band i. p. 258 ff.
[93] Friederike died in 1815. She was still alive when Goethe was writing the story of their love.
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[95] "I, too," Goethe wrote in Dichtung und Wahrheit, "had trodden the path of knowledge, and had early been led to see the vanity of it."
[96] In point of fact, only two legal cases passed through Goethe's hands during the first seven months after his return. During the later period of his stay in Frankfort he was more busily engaged with law.
[97] The younger brother, Georg, subsequently married Cornelia.
[98] Werke, Briefe, Band 2, pp. 7-8.
[99] Ib. p. 6.
[100] Ib. p. 8.