Goethe's Correspondence

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. To the Chancellor Muller, in Weimar, my thanks are also due, for having troubled himself at my request, in spite of his man business, to discover my letters among the vast mass which Goethe had left. It is now eighteen months since I recovered them. At that time he wrote to me: Thus returns this untouched treas ure of love and constancy to the rich source from whence it sprung! But one thing I would beg of your friendship, as a. Reward for my exact execution of your wish and will, and for my self-restraint, - give me any pages of this, without doubt.