126 Humboldt's Letters. 



meier, Dohm, and Klein lectured to us for a long time 

 on philosophy, jurisprudence, and political science, is 

 known to you. When at the University of Frankfurt 

 (for six months) we lived with Loeffler, who was Pro- 

 fessor there. In Goettingen, both of us were mem- 

 bers (for one year) of the Philological Seminary of 

 Heyne. 



To my father belonged Tegel (formerly a hunting 

 chateau of the great Elector, and it was consequently 

 only a leasehold property. Wilhelni first possessed the 

 place in fee-simple, as a manor ; therefore Schinkel 

 added to it four towers, in order to preserve the old 

 tower erected under the great Elector). Besides this, 

 he owned Ringenwalde, near Soldin, in the Neumark. 

 Ringenwalde afterwards belonged to me, then to the 

 Counts Reeden and Achim Arnim. Wilhelm, at the 

 time of his death, possessed Tegel, Burgoerner, and 

 Auleben (acquired by his wife, as the fiefdom of the 

 Dacheroeden family had been abolished), Hadersleben, 

 in the Magdeburg country, and Castle Ottmachau, in 

 Silesia, the dotation given to him after the Paris 

 peace. 



The Sonnet I., 394, refers to a second child, I believe, 

 which Frau von Humboldt lost when at Rome. One 

 was buried in Paris. 



I conjure you do not mention to the author anything 

 as coming from me. He would inevitably state it in 



