362 Humboldt's Letters. 



what he adds : " Other interests, which remain for ever 

 alive in me, bind me to the memories of yesterday ! ! 

 (of the 18th of March!)* I believe myself in full 

 convalescence, but as I had to rest much on the bed 

 without occupation, sadness and displeasure with the 

 world have increased in me. This I say to you 

 alone." 



soo. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



BERLIN, April th, 1857. 

 IF you, dear friend, understand the letter of the 



Grand Duke as I do, must go. I had proposed 



that he should come to Weimar, under the pretext of 

 studying the archives ; he would bring a letter of intro- 

 duction from you or me ; should be invited to court and 

 if he did not please, should simply be asked whether he 

 meant to return to . That this should be a shib- 

 boleth as a bad end of the drama, quod Deus avertat. 

 I also proposed to advance the stipulated sum of 

 money. On this head the tyrant does not answer dis- 

 tinctly. goes, I think, by way of Berlin. Shall 



* Day of the Prussian Revolution of 1848. 



