Humboldt's Letters. 387 



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HU^BOLDT TO VAKSTHAGEN. 



BERLIN, October Uth, 1857. 



(WITH LETTER FROM GEOTZ AND GARVE RETURNED.) 



MY best thanks ! I had already received the letters 

 and enjoyed them. Nothing can add more to the glory 

 of my brother. Strange that Ancillon could so long 

 deceive so shrewd a man as Gentz. 



A. v. HT. 



Varnhagen's diary of Dec. 3d, 1857, reads as follows : 

 " I called on Humboldt ; M. von Olfers was just going, 

 and told me that Rauch had died in Dresden. Next 

 General Count von der Groeben took his leave ; he was 

 very cordial, and pleased with my offer to send him a 

 man who will repnblish the poems of Schenkendorf. 

 Humboldt was full of cordiality for Ludmilla and my- 

 self; told me about the King, about Schoenlein, about the 

 Princess of Prussia, about Doctor Lassalle, whose work* 

 he had read accurately in three nights, and of Friesen ; 

 spoke of the * Kreuz Zeitung' with contempt, praised the 

 Count von der Groeben as a man of honor, and von der 



* The Philosophy of Heraclitus the Obscuro of Ephesus. 



