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hight. I was too tired for all that and poor Lotte had not a good time with me, especially as her health was not the best. You have your children and with them a duty to keep up, you have large interests and an unbroken activity. I am sure you will see still the better time and will give me right, that I with my “black liver” did not wait any longer. I send you these lines in the last hours, you cannot imagine how glad I feel since I have taken the decision. Give my love to your children and do not complain me—remember the good Josef Roth and Rieger, how glad I always was for them, that they had not to go through those ordeals.
Love and friendship and cheer up, knowing me quiet and happy
                                                                                             Stefan

    NOTES
1 Zweig GW Verhaeren, p 12.
2 Klaus Mann 2005, p 604.
3 27th September 1935, Zweig GW Tagebücher, p 383.
4 Lotte Zweig to Hannah and Manfred Altmann, 23rd October 1940, in private ownership, Great Britain; quoted here in the original English.
5 Reichs- und Staatsanzeiger, No 286, 5th December 1940. Reproduced in: Zweig 2005, p 131.
6 Arens 1968, p 273 (facsimile of Zweig’s handwritten text).
7 Zweig F 1947, p 402 f.
8 Blick auf mein Leben, manuscript with numerous deletions and additions, LOC Washington, MMC 1604.
9 Zweig GW Welt von Gestern, p 491 f.
10 Lotte Zweig to Hannah Altmann, 21st July 1941, in private ownership, Great Britain, quoted here in the original English.
11 Stefan Zweig to Heinrich Eisemann, 22nd July 1941, LBI New York, quoted here in the original English.
12 Maass 1968, p 168 ff.
13 Stefan Zweig to Heinrich Eisemann, undated, probably September 1941, LBI New York, quoted here in the original English.
14 Stefan Zweig to Felix Braun, 21st November 1941, copy: Zweig Estate, London.
15 Lotte Zweig to Hannah Altmann, 7th November 1941, in private ownership, Great Britain, quoted here in the original English.
16 Zweig GW Gedichte, p 232.
17 Stefan Zweig to Joachim Maass, 25th December 1941. In: Briefe IV, p 333 ff.
18 Lotte and Stefan Zweig to Stefanie Zweig, undated, postmark illegible, around 18th December 1941, Zweig Estate, London.
19 Stefan to Friderike Zweig, 20th January 1942. In: Briefwechsel Friderike Zweig 2006, p 389.
20 Ivan Heilbut to Stefan Zweig, 11th February 1942 and postal tracking request dated 9th March 1942, DNB Frankfurt.
21 Heilbut 1942.
22 Stefan to Friderike Zweig, 22nd February 1942. SUNY, Fredonia/NY; quoted here in the original English.

Sources and Literature
Unfortunately, in this unfriendly world of ours, there is a spiteful and snooping enmity between dry documents and the flourishing legends that surround writers. *
    I. UNPUBLISHED SOURCES (WITH ABBREVIATED TITLES USED IN THE NOTES AND REFERENCES)
    BBC Reading: BBC Written Archives Centre, Reading
— Transcript of a television interview with Stefan Zweig, plus associated correspondence.
    BL London: The British Library, London
— Stefan Zweig: Lebensreliquien Beethovens, typescript with handwritten emendations, undated [1939/1940].
— Correspondence between Stefan Zweig and Heinrich Hinterberger.
— Letters from Heinrich Eisemann to Stefan Zweig.
    DLA Marbach: Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar
— Letters from Stefan Zweig to Anton Kippenberg.
— Letters from Stefan Zweig to Karl Geigy-Hagenbach.
    DNB Frankfurt: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Deutsches Exilarchiv, Frankfurt am Main
— Alfredo Cahn Archive (in part on permanent loan from the Adolf und Luisa Haeuser-Stiftung für Kunst und Kulturpflege, Frankfurt am Main).
— Correspondence between Stefan Zweig and Ivan Heilbut.
    FBN Rio: Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro
— Letters from Stefan Zweig to the Director of Brazil’s National Library.
    Fondation Bodmer, Cologny-Geneva
— Letters from Stefan Zweig to Ludwig Schwerin.

     GSA Weimar: Goethe- und