There are many such epistles in this curious collection. Not often does the personal correspondence between two extremely learned men (for Bonstetten was also a savant of high qualities) keep such an unliterary and passionally personal accent. In other letters we find Müller calling Bonstetten his Apollo, whose godlike beauty and grace have inspired Muller's heart. He names Bonstetten his "Cory don". He writes to Bonstetten in a fever of longing, for a letter from his "friend" and in feminine anxiety for his welfare. He narrates his dreams of Bonstetten. Bonstetten himself was an older man, and a calmer personality, though equally homosexual. His reciprocation of Muller's extravagant affection was more contained and dignified. Muller in his correspondence with another friend Kinloch, writes with similarly homosexual emotions; and there are interesting traces of rivalries and jealousies in the intimacy. In even the historical writings of Muller a delicate colouring of uranian feeling is to be remarked, when he is dealing with biography which admits of it.
Winckelmann.
The German archeologist and critic, Winckelman, (1717-1768) not only was all his life an Uranian, and in sexual relations with friends or acquaintances of the same nature; but lost his life by uranistic intimacy. Whether Winckelman was an "inborn" Uranian, or if his strong homosexualism was largely the result of aesthetic studies in Italy, where his life and labours
- ↑ Transl. X. M.
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