Both also agreed that the girls of Frankfort were vastly inferior creatures to those of Leipzig.

"I came here," Goethe wrote in a poetical epistle to the daughter of Oeser, "and found the girls a little--one does not quite like to speak it out--as they always were; enough, none has as yet touched my heart."[55] It would appear, nevertheless, that he did find certain Frankfort girls to his taste.

"I get along tolerably here," he wrote to another correspondent.

"I am contented and quiet; I have half-a-dozen angels of girls whom I often see, though I have lost my heart to none of them.

They are pleasant creatures, and make my life uncommonly agreeable.