28 EAST PRUSSIA TO THE GOLDEN GATE 



Pray for us, all of you, as I do for you. May God bless 

 all of us and may He grant us an early reunion ! 

 Your ever faithful friend, 



FRIEDRICH WILHELM. 



P. S.— I beg you, for God's sake, be careful with this 

 letter and do not show it to anyone. Just tell them what- 

 ever may be of consoling interest as regards our fate, but 

 not the thoughts which I may have expressed. If you 

 do not think that you will be able to hide the letter, burn 

 it instantly. Nobody is to read it, except perhaps it be 

 Schellbach, whom I have already seen and spoken to, 

 tete a tete, for, believe me, this region is full of spies and 

 emissaries; so one has to weigh every word carefully. I 

 am only too well aware of it. Be very careful in your 

 own behalf. 



Now, farewell, and be prudent in all things. F. W. 



The foregoing will serve the reader to better under- 

 stand the feeling of our author, who was but three years 

 older than H. E. Highness, and who represented at the 

 time— the other side. He visits the very battle-field upon 

 which his fellow-endeavorers had paid the penalty for 

 the folly of their ignorance or misdirected sentimentality. 

 With the Berlin letter closes that period of his life; in it 

 we find the last expressions of the author's sympathy for 

 the cause he espoused in his youth. He was bound for 

 the New World and he determined to free himself from 

 the drawbacks of the old. (Translator.) 



