366 Humboldt's Letters. *. 



frightened friend had retreated long before. This cor- 

 respondence is certainly unique in its kind. The trans- 

 actions, disquisitions, mutual influences, inclinations, 

 and feuds are invested with dramatic interest. In Adam 

 Mueller, by-the-by, is contained the complete germ of 

 the " Kreutz Zeitungs" party, though in ideal elevation, 

 still without contact with the real world, and therefore 

 without offensive vulgarities. 



Your Excellency kindly promised me a few lines on 

 Franz Baader ; may I remind you of them in the most 

 modest manner, and with the remark, that really a few 

 lines only would suffice for the purpose ? 



In most faithful reverence and most grateful submis- 

 sion, immutably your Excellency's most obedient 



VARNHAGEN VON ENSE. 



203. 



YARNHAGEN TO HUMBOLDT. 



BERLIN, April 10th, 1857. 

 I HAVE the pleasure to announce to your Excellency 



that Herr will start from to Weimar on 



the 14th. Much as he would have wished to make the 

 detour by way of Berlin, if only to lay at the feet of 

 your Excellency the most cordial expression of his 



