22 Humboldt's Letters. 



e. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



BERLIN, 26#A of April, 1830. 



I HAVE just come home from Potsdam, and find your 

 dear letter and your present, so very agreeable to me. 

 The " Zinzendorf" * will delight me very, very much. 

 He is an individual physiognomy like Lavater and Car- 

 danus. The recent pietism, which began to break out 

 at Halle, made me smile. I rejoice that you will kindly 

 accept my " Cri de Petersbourg" it is a parody recited 

 at Court the forced work of two nights ; an essay to 

 flatter without self-degradation, to say how things 

 should be. As you and your high-gifted wife, my 

 ancient and kind friend, rejoice in anything agreeable 

 that happens to me, I wish to say that the King sends 

 me to the Emperor to attend the meeting of the 

 Potentates. I shall probably go with the Crown-Prince, 

 who will meet the Empress at Fischbach. 

 Yours, 



A. HT. 



Zinzendorf >s letters to the Saviour were rather more 

 legible, f 



* Biography of Count Zinzendorf by Varnhagen. Translator. 

 f Humboldt wrote a very illegible hand, hence this allusion.- 

 Translator. 



