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the "Hamburg Moniteur" as Grand Officier, which 

 Guizot gave me fifteen years ago. Raumer's conversa- 

 tion is very interesting ; he was at Pesth, at Milan, 

 dined with the Archduke, apd called on Cavour. He 

 has again returned with something of a hankering after 

 the Austrian regime in Lombardy, like the Republicans 

 when they visit the United States, where arsenic, the 

 torture, or Fremont-worshipping negroes, cause a 

 criminal colic to Cuba-mad Buchanan. Multa sunt 

 eadem sed aliter. The Russian Minister of Enlighten- 

 ment, Noroff, who had a leg shot off by the thigh at 

 Borodino, and who has carried his wooden leg to 

 Jerusalem and Egypt, and even to the top of the 

 Pyramids, is here, and attends as a guest, sitting among 

 the students, the lectures of Johannes Mueller and 

 Diderici. His companion, the young Count Ouwaroff, 

 the author of a great work on Hellenic antiquities in 

 the Chersonese, attends the lectures of Michelet and 

 Boeckh. Both are very agreeable men. The former is 

 accused of being over spiritual, but not intolerant ; 

 both are much pleased with the freedom of our student 

 life, and with the absence of policemen from our uni- 

 versity building. I did not care to disabuse the mind 

 of the one-legged Raumer, as they will leave soon. 

 Decipitur mundus. 



With old affection, your tiresome 



A. V. HUMBOLDT. 



