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and was recommended me from Paris. Excuse the 

 importunity, but you must sometimes take your share 

 of the annoyance of being gazed at. 



A. V. HUMBOLDT. 



THUBSDAY. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



BERLIN, TUESDAY, June 3d, 1845. 

 One o'clock, A. M. 



ALL the mysteries were solved to-night, dearest 

 friend. I received this afternoon from the department 

 of Foreign Affairs, where they were stored up, fourteen 

 parcels pell-mell, misdirected there from Paris and 

 dating from December to May. The first thing we 

 perceived was your handwriting; the parcel was duly 

 directed and contained, well secured under your seal, 

 your important political letter and a parcel for Comtesse 

 d'Agoult, which I remit with the present. I am quite 

 innocent of what has happened. 



In the Rhine and Moselle Gazette, No. 122 of the 29th 

 of May, I am judged guilty of Voltairianism, denial of 

 all revelations, of conspiring with Marheineke, Bruno 

 Bauer, Feuerbach, nay even of the expedition against 



