[160] By Sainte-Beuve.
[161] Werke, Briefe, ii. 207.
[162] The family of Kestner eventually published the correspondence of Goethe with their parents.—A. Kestner, Goethe und Werther, Briefe Goethes, meistens aus seiner Jugendheit, mit erläuternden Documenten (Stuttgart und Tübingen, 1854).
[163] Eckermann, op. cit., January 2nd, 1824.
[164] The accidie of the Middle Ages was a form of Wertherism. Cf. Chaucer's Parson's Tale.
[165] It may be recalled that Werther was throughout his life one of R.L. Stevenson's favourite books. See his Letter to Mrs. Sitwell, September 6th, 1873, and ch. xix. of The Wrecker.
[166] Fragment de mon voyage d'Espagne.—Mémoires de Monsieur Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, tome ii.
[167] Of all the women who came in her son's way, Frau Goethe thought that this lady, Anna Sibylla Münch by name, would have made him the most suitable partner in life.
[168] To Fritz Jacobi, August 21st, 1774.
[169] In language, as well as in form, Clavigo followed traditional models. Wieland was naturally gratified by Goethe's return to those models which he had set at defiance in Götz.