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Konigsberg, nothing was done. I therefore addressed 

 a memorial to the King on the actions in Konigsberg 

 of the Provincial Diet, and on the necessity of acting 

 authoritatively in things which interest ah 1 hearts, in 

 order to secure their affections and therefore to bestow 

 a professorship upon the brothers Grimm, Albrecht, and 

 Dahlmann. There is little hope for Dahlmann. Albrecht 

 received a call, but refused it, giving as a reason his 

 gratitude to Saxony. It would have been a satisfaction 

 to the seven professors, could Albrecht have become 

 professor in Berlin. 



They certainly will at least hear in Hanover that 

 the King has called the " Elbinger." In respect to the 

 brothers Grimm, the King insists upon his plan, that 

 minister Eichhorn should offer to them a place in the 

 Academy, with a pension to both, as they live like hus- 

 band and wife. That the King wants these things to be 

 arranged with tact, you may see from the negotiations 

 with Tieck. For librarians, although excellent men, 

 they are very unfit. Whether Wilhelm Grimm, as a 

 correspondent of the Academy, lectures or not is also 

 very irrelevant. The chief thing is to get them. Of 

 "smuggling them in," "a debasement," "to think of them 

 so late," dans un regne de cent jours it is nonsense 

 to talk ! It does honor at least to the administration 

 of Ladenberg, that I was able to propose Dahlmann in 

 due form, and in flattering terms for the university of 



