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Heinitz, Chief Director of Mines, may possibly send his son to 

 Biisch. I hear a whisper of it occasionally, but I doubt if it 

 ever comes to pass ; however, pray speak of it whenever you can. 

 Madame will be delighted at the mere thought of such a thing. 

 I was intensely amused by what you told me of Griseke and 

 Flottbeck. Please ask Grill for his address in Amsterdam. I 

 think I must still owe you some money, but I have not the 

 slightest idea how much. I have also to send some money to 

 Arendt, and I will remit it to you both from Berlin, where I 

 expect to be in a week, as the postage from here is so heavy. 

 I was delighted with Bothlingk's letter. I love that man 

 intensely, for he is by no means so cold-hearted as he forces 

 himself to appear ; I consider him in every way worthy of 

 esteem. What has become of Losh ? You must send me a com- 

 plete list of all the academicians with their separate histories. 

 Tell me something of yourself, the studies at present engaging 

 your attention, and the prospects you have for the future ; you 

 know how deeply all this will interest me. By my own fault, 

 I am so completely cut off from all correspondence that I have 

 not had a line from Forster for six months. In what part of 

 Switzerland is Speckter now ? As for Hiilsenbeck, I cannot 

 for shame write to him. I don't know what he must think of 

 me, for he wrote me an exceedingly warm-hearted and affec- 

 tionate letter, asking me to do him a trifling service ; and I am 

 ashamed to say I never answered him by a word. Steps, how- 

 ever, have been taken on behalf of Herr Christ. Mund, partly by 

 my own exertions and partly through my brother's influence 5 

 but owing to the dilatoriness of Counsellor Klein in the Court 

 of Judicature, nothing further has been heard of his affairs. 

 Please explain all this to Hiilsenbeck and make my peace with 

 liim. I am sure that neither of you think I would be really 

 disobliging to anyone, least of all to such friends as you both 

 are to me friends to whom I am indebted for so many agree- 

 able hours. I shall write to Hiilsenbeck at once on my arrival 

 at Berlin. 



c I have now a small favour to ask. Will you kindly give 

 the enclosed pamphlet to Brodhagen, and by help of a little 

 flattery persuade him to review it in one of the papers ? You 

 will know how to do this without in the least compromising me 



YOL. I. I 



