Humboldt's Letters. 49 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



BERLIN, May 31**, 1836. 



[Concerning the article in the Allgemeine Zeitung, against Raumer,* 

 written, it was said, by Major von Radowitz.] 



THE correspondent had, it seems, little to fear from 

 the mendacious declaration of this " defloured." In the 

 general view on the shallowness and dough-facedness, 

 of the great historian, I am of his opinion. Moreover 

 reading Herr von Raumer's books is like being 

 " whipped," and that I neither suffer nor pardon. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



Monday, April 24<A, 1837. 



IT is very consoling, that both brothers in this intel- 

 lectually desolated city (how brilliant it was when Rahel 

 was in her zenith) live in the memory of the only one, 

 to whom have remained good taste, refined manners, and 

 gracefulness of style. 



* Professor of History at Berlin. 



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