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In 1780 there was published a volume of confessedly spurious letters entitled “Briefe von Yorick und Elisen, wie sie zwischen ihnen konnten geschrieben werden.” The introduction contains some interesting information for the determination of the genuineness of the Sterne letters. The editor states that the author had written these letters purely as a diversion, that the editor had proposed their publication, but was always met with refusal until there appeared in London a little volume of letters which their editor emphatically declared to be genuine. This is evidently the volume published by the anonymous editor in 1775, and our present editor declares that he knows Nos.
[Footnote 49: “Lorenz Sterne’s oder Yorick’s Briefwechsel mit Elisen und seinen übrigen Freunden.” Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich. 1775,
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