70.HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN.
Tuesday,June 13th, 1843.
Tuesday,June 13th, 1843.
Tuesday,June 13th, 1843.
Tuesday,June 13th, 1843.
Excuse me, dear friend, for being prevented by the absence of Reimer, by my own eternal distractions and pendulum-like movements, as well as by some little preparations for an excursion to Pomerania, from sending you the two new volumes of Wilhelm’s works. I know that you are little pleased with the commentary on Hermann and Dorothea. It would have been preferable, to be sure, had he extended it into a pamphlet on epics; but you perceive even in the Kawi book how that great genius always deduced general law from special instances. The sonnets are full of grave pathos and depth of sentiment. I shall call to embrace you, and to ask you the surest way of sending a copy to Mr. Thomas Carlyle?A. seems unreliable, and Buelow’s despatches cannot be overloaded. I shall thank Mr. Carriere personally. The “fossil” minister, I am told, has given evidence of his vitality by an amiable letter to you! My life is also described “dans les biographies redigées par un homme de rien,” in which I am pictured as a socially-malicious beast. Such things will not kill, nor will they improve a man either.
Always faithfully yours,A. v. Ht.
Always faithfully yours,A. v. Ht.
Always faithfully yours,A. v. Ht.
Always faithfully yours,
A. v. Ht.