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remain a secret, so that I shall be entirely at liberty to 

 see him, to appoint him, or not to appoint him. 



I thank you with all my heart for that printed inclo- 

 sure. This task also, by no means an easy one, you have 

 performed with a master hand, and could do so better 

 than any one else, because you, more than most men, 

 have spoken to the world by noble actions. 



I shall appropriate the Journal of Petermann. My 

 veneration for you is the pledge of the effective truth of 

 my aspirations. I beg you to preserve your interest in 

 it, and your goodness also, being your most grateful 

 admirer and servant, 



CHARLES ALEXANDER. 



HUMBOLDT TO YARNHAGEK 



BERLIN, Feb. 7 to, 1857. 



WHEN I read anything in Berlin that enlists my poli- 

 tical or literary attention, my first thought is of you. 

 Lasaulx of Munich, of Baader's tribe, was only known to 

 me as a man of the " Kreuz Zeitung" and of Schubert's 

 World of Darkness, and the new historical work he 

 sends me contains little originality of views, but it mani- 

 fests, by way of allusion, a wealth of positive know- 



