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still defends every day the expulsion of the Baden 

 Representatives. He does not dare to name Eichhorn 

 with censure. The last line only is grand and fine. 

 With unalterable devotion, 

 Yours, 

 FRIDAY. A. v. HTJMBOLDT. 



1O8. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



BERLIN, March 29th, 1846. 



I have only time to tell you, that I shall certainly be 

 in Sans Souci from June to September, and to thank 

 you, noble friend, from my heart, for the kind manner 

 in which you allude to the Agamemnon of my brother. 

 To choose maliciously 16 verses out of 1700!! I once 

 complained that they would not perform the drama in a 

 royal palace hi my brother's translation ! As the Staats 

 Zeitung is seen every evening by the King, they thought 

 it well to malign the production there. The very next 

 day I answered in the Spenersche Zeitung mildly, 

 because the well-informed but unpoetical Dr. Franz is 

 now seeking an increase of his pension. I myself took 

 care that the King did not see my answer ; at least, he 



