109.HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN.
Berlin,March 30th, 1846.
Berlin,March 30th, 1846.
Berlin,March 30th, 1846.
Berlin,March 30th, 1846.
I send you again some autographs of little import, ten in number, of Villemain, Bessel, Victor Hugo, Rueckert (of whom you have plenty of autographs), Manzoni (full of praise for me, but in bad style), Thiers, Widow of Lucien Bonaparte, three billets de matin of the Duchesse d’Orleans. I add to these fugitive sheets a letter from me to the King, which I beseech and implore you not to show to any one, and tosend back to-morrow, because I might have use for it. You shall have the letter afterwards. It sometimes happens that the King, instead of a billet de matin, writes his answer on my letter. This happened yesterday. Theministers who would gladly permit the “Turnen,[46]” throw suspicion on Prof. Massmann, whom the King likes very much, and whom he wants to keep here. My letter will show you at least, that I openly say, how the tide of evil is bearing down all things before it, and how we are depriving ourselves of the means of action.
With my old attachment, yours,A. v. Humboldt.
With my old attachment, yours,A. v. Humboldt.
With my old attachment, yours,A. v. Humboldt.
With my old attachment, yours,
A. v. Humboldt.