350 Humboldt's Letters. 



production is also remarkable as containing, on p. 34, the following 

 allusion to Schleiermacher : "It is said of a distinguished divine, 

 that he was once sorely tempted to commit suicide. Such is the 

 influence which suffering of body and mind may exercise even upon 

 good and godly men." 



103. 



HUMBOLDT TO YARNHAGEN. 



BERLIN, December 11th, 1856. 



ANOTHER grateful, unconstrained, and amiable letter 

 from the Grand Duke. He fixes February for the visit, 

 and desires the drama to open with a request to search 

 the archives. The permission being given, the material 

 part is to follow, as he says, symbolically. You will 

 arrange that with care, my dear friend. We are 

 approaching the goal of our wishes. 



I have another funeral to-morrow at the column in 

 Tegel, which, under the hand of Thorwalsden, promises 

 Hope. The oldest niece (daughter) of my brother, the 

 wife of General Hedemann, born in Paris in 1800, a few 

 days after Madame von Humboldt's return from Spain, 

 has departed after much suffering (liver complaint 

 connected with dropsy), an amiable, cheerful house. 



