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dam, which transformed itself entirely into a Buddhistic 

 " cold hell," was prevented for a long time by the 

 delicate health of the Queen, I at last moved over 

 here on Saturday. You have shed renown upon the 

 Prussian arms, and, what touches me in a more human 

 manner, on the warrior of many-sided culture.* The 

 gallery of your biographies stands in singular grandeur 

 in our German literature. I am enraged by the treat- 

 ment of my friend Arago in the last number of the 

 " Quarterly Review" (September) an ebullition of 

 political party spirit, exactly as I was treated by the 

 same journal from 1810-1818. A note at the end of 

 the number for September says, with rare delicacy, 

 that the article was written before his death was known ; 

 but it was known generally in London that he had 

 become blind, and that he suffered infinitely from 

 dropsy, one of the symptoms of which is to fill the 

 mind with apprehensions. 



With ancient gratitude and devotion, and admiration 

 of your talents, your faithful 



A. v. HUMBOLDT. 



MONDAY. 



* Leben des Generals Buelow von Dennewitz. Yon K. A. Yarn- 

 hagen von Ense. Berlin, 1853. 



