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little chemist of the name of Kopp used to live here. 

 I knew him well for thirty years, but I never under- 

 stood a word he said." Kopp talked the Hanau 

 dialect of German, Bunsen pure Hanoverian. 



My friend Thorpe has done full justice to Kopp's 

 memory in his lecture before the Chemical Society. 

 Several of Kopp's letters lie beside me, of which the 

 following indicates his humour and kind heart, and 

 illustrates his intimate relations with Bunsen, to whose 

 Jubilee it refers. 



HEIDELBERG, Jan. gth, 1882. 

 HONOURED FRIEND, 



At present I am working very hard. For some time I was 

 not at all well, but now I am all right again. 



We really expected you here for Bunsen's Jubilee. B. 

 has hidden himself with a few chosen friends at Zugenheim 

 in the Bergstrasse ; in case you came I had written where we 

 were to be found, in a note which my wife was keeping for 

 you. B. bore the unavoidable with dignity and not without 

 pleasure. He is very well and happy, suffers slightly from 

 chronic bronchial-catarrh, grumbles a great deal, and is 

 therefore thoroughly normal. He sends you hearty greeting ; 

 that is to say, he and I have joint authority to do this 

 to mutual absent friends (when I was with him this afternoon 

 as usual, I did not know that I should be writing to you, 

 but I find I have half-an-hour to spare before midnight). 

 He is thinking of going to Italy in the Easter holidays with 

 Quincke. I shall stay here this time and work. 



But now good-night. My best wishes to you and yours 

 for the newly-started year. 



Your devoted, 



HERMANN KOPP. 



My knowledge of the Germans and Germany has 

 led me to love the Fatherland, and, I venture to think, 

 to understand as well as to respect and admire the 

 nation. As to any feelings antagonistic to England 

 and the English existing in the minds of the many 

 Germans with whom I became intimate I never found 



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