155.HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN.
Berlin,Dec. 12th, 1853.
Berlin,Dec. 12th, 1853.
Berlin,Dec. 12th, 1853.
Berlin,Dec. 12th, 1853.
Again, my noble friend, you have shown your skill in giving me pleasure. After our departure from Potsdam,which transformed itself entirely into a Buddhistic “cold hell,” was prevented for a long time by the delicate health of the Queen, I at last moved over here on Saturday. You have shed renown upon the Prussian arms, and, what touches me in a more human manner, on the warrior of many-sided culture.[61]The gallery of your biographies stands in singular grandeur in our German literature. I am enraged by the treatment of my friend Arago in the last number of the “Quarterly Review” (September)—an ebullition of political party spirit, exactly as I was treated by the same journal from 1810–1818. A note at the end of the number for September says, with raredelicacy, that the article was written before his death was known; but it was known generally in London that he had become blind, and that he suffered infinitely from dropsy, one of the symptoms of which is to fill the mind with apprehensions.
With ancient gratitude and devotion, and admiration of your talents, your faithful
A. v. Humboldt.
A. v. Humboldt.
A. v. Humboldt.
A. v. Humboldt.
Monday.
Monday.
Monday.
Monday.