31.HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN.
Berlin,October 4th, 1837.
Berlin,October 4th, 1837.
Berlin,October 4th, 1837.
Berlin,October 4th, 1837.
You delight sometimes in arresting fleeting events, and in preserving what the winds usually carry away. I therefore send you, dear friend, the little speech, which the papers have published in such a mutilated form. The sense of it will please you, although its neglected style might be better.PoliticalHanover I found, as you supposed; and private conversations with King Ernest,which at the same time express wrath and fear, confirm the view. Leist of Stade with his report, which lasted five hours, has lately done harm by his flattery.
Yours,A. Ht.
Yours,A. Ht.
Yours,A. Ht.
Yours,
A. Ht.
Stieglitz, Wilhelm’s oldest friend, and who once saved his life in the Leine river (my brother cried out to him, with unexampled stoicism; “I die, but it does not matter,”) was to me a serious apparition of a ghost. The effect of his spirit upon me is uncomfortable.