94.HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN.
Berlin, Tuesday,June 3d, 1845.One o’clock,A. M.
Berlin, Tuesday,June 3d, 1845.One o’clock,A. M.
Berlin, Tuesday,June 3d, 1845.One o’clock,A. M.
Berlin, Tuesday,June 3d, 1845.
One o’clock,A. M.
All the mysteries were solved to-night, dearest friend. I received this afternoon from the department of Foreign Affairs, where they were stored up, fourteen parcels pell-mell, misdirected there from Paris and dating from December to May. The first thing we perceived was your handwriting; the parcel was duly directed and contained, well secured under your seal, your important political letter and a parcel for Comtesse d’Agoult, which I remit with the present. I am quite innocent of what has happened.
In the Rhine and Moselle Gazette, No. 122 of the 29th of May, I am judged guilty of Voltairianism, denial of all revelations, of conspiring with Marheineke, Bruno Bauer, Feuerbach, nay even of the expedition againstLuzerne—ipsissimis verbis—and all that on account of my Kosmos, page 381. The King had already been told that my book was the work of a demagogue and an infidel. Whereupon the King wrote me, that he could but say what Alfons said to Tasso:
“And so I hold it in my hand at lastAnd call itmine, if I may use that word!”
“And so I hold it in my hand at lastAnd call itmine, if I may use that word!”
“And so I hold it in my hand at lastAnd call itmine, if I may use that word!”
“And so I hold it in my hand at last
And call itmine, if I may use that word!”
This is poetical and very civil.
With the sincerest gratitude, yours,A. v. Humboldt.
With the sincerest gratitude, yours,A. v. Humboldt.
With the sincerest gratitude, yours,A. v. Humboldt.
With the sincerest gratitude, yours,
A. v. Humboldt.