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we then give him the letter of recommendation with 

 the galvanic stimulants ? I do as you wish. 

 Your faithful 



A. V. HUMBOLDT. 



MONDAY. 



Keep the letter of the Grand Duke, which ends nicely, 

 and in good taste. 



201. 



KAKL ALEXANDER, GRAND DUKE OP SAXE-WEIMAR, 

 TO HUMBOLDT. 



WEMAB, April 3d, 1857. 



A MISUNDERSTANDING is the key to my behavior 



towards . I believed and expected that he, after 



he had, in January, I believe, asked the permission to 

 search our archives, would immediately come hither. 

 Then only of course I would have paid his expenses. 

 Just in these last days I wondered neither to hear nor 

 to see anything of . 



Then arrived the second letter of your Excellency, 

 which, asking explanation of me, gives explanation; and I 



hasten to answer it by saying that may come in 



about ten days, and I would be prepared in any case to 

 make the payment, the amount of which your Excellency 



