Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Chapter 1
By Originally published as part of 1881. Also available at Project Gutenberg: the complete Autobiography of Goethe (Books I to XX), with 24 illustrations by Eugène Delacroix, Lovis Corinth, T. Johannot,... added especially for this ebook: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52654. Frontispiece: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe par Eugène Delacroix (Source: Faust, tragédie de M. de Goethe, traduite en français par M. Albert Stapfer. C. Motte (Paris) 1828, Gallica Bnf.) When, a few years ago, the copies of the following letters were first made known to us, it was asserted that they had been found among Werther's papers, and it was pretended that before his acquaintance with Charlotte, he had been in Switzerland. We have never seen the originals: however we would not on any account anticipate the judgment and feelings of our readers; for whatever may be their true history, it is impossible to read them without sympathy.
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