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with dignity. But that Prutz or Fallersleben could be 

 appointed seems highly improbable to me. Credat 

 Judoeus Apella. Excuse to-day my contused writing, 

 dear friend ! 



Yours, 

 SATURDAY. A. v. HT. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



J, Feb. 20th, 1846. 

 Do you guess, my dear friend, who sent me this strange 

 article ? Do you guess anything from the seal and the 

 name on the envelope, " M. ?" Is that the author, and 

 to what journal may the article belong ? Profound, of 

 enlarged political views, it certainly is not. The passage 

 on p. 8 is underscored by the author himself, and it con- 

 tains a contradiction ! Prussia is to have unity in an 

 American confederacy. His remarks, p. 3, on Frede- 

 rick n. and on his works, and on " Kant a guillotine," 

 p. 5, are as Minister Thiele would write them. I am 

 indignant at both. The author knows all the news, all 

 the names, all the gossip, of the " JSckensheher,"* and is 

 touched by the liberalism of Bodelschwingh, p. 14, who 



* Curbstone Guard. Tr. 



