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10, 11. Two good-humored letters more of the King. 

 Le Seehund, the recommendation of a rather rough 

 Danish sea captain, who declared his willingness to take 

 two naturalists around the globe at the rate of 2500 

 rixthalers a head (a little high). The plan was a failure. 

 Le Seigneur Cados, ministre Secretaire ftEtat of the 

 watchmaking Due de Normandie, who addressed to the 

 Crown-Prince a complaint about the indecent manner in 

 which he was treated by the Staats-Zeitung. 



12. From Brunei, the hero of the tunnel. 



13. A letter of Sir John Herschel, full of flattering 

 expressions. 



14. Mr. de Balzac. 



15. Sir Robert Peel. Somebody had written me, 

 from Oxford, that Robert Brown, the first botanist of 

 Europe, had got suddenly into money difficulties, and 

 that Peel, on my intercession, would grant him one of 

 the four only pensions accorded to savans by Parlia- 

 ment. I recommended him and was successful. 



16. Mad. Recamier. I am sure you have already 

 several letters from her. 



17. A letter from Prince Metternich, to be added to 

 the number of those which you have already from 

 him. 



18. The illustrious American historian, Prescott. In 

 your hands all will be safe, even what I myself would 

 destroy from wantonness. I entreat you, dear friend, 



