rage at Halle has made me smile. Your conclusion of 

 the work is full of dignity and grace. I am delighted 

 to hear that you are kind enough to wish to keep my 

 " Cri de Petersbourg," a parody delivered before the 

 Court a hasty two nights' work, an attempt at flattery 

 without servility at talking of things as they should 

 be. As you, and my dear old friend your gifted wife, 

 take an interest in all my good fortune, I must tell 

 you that the King is sending me to the Emperor,* 

 during the Session of the Diet. I shall probably travel 

 with the Crown Prince, who is to fetch the Empress 

 to the rendezvous at Fischbach.f 



Yours, 



A. HT. 



Let us hope Zinzendorf's letters to the Saviour 

 were more legible than this scrawl ! 



VII. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



Berlin, 9th July, 1830. 



I trust you, and your excellent and accomplished 

 wife, will allow me on the eve of my departure, to offer 

 you my warmest thanks for your new and highly ac- 

 ceptable present, f I was not personally acquainted 

 with the man whose peculiarities you so thoughtfully 

 develope. He was one of those who owe their distinc- 

 tion to their individuality, and attain to greater conse- 

 quence by their actions than through their writings. 

 Such a character excites my wonder as a curiosity a 



* Nicholas of Russia. The Russian Diet is meant. TJR. 

 t A country seat of the King of Prussia, in Silesia. TR. 

 J " Memoirs of John Benjamin Erhard, Philosopher and Physician." By 

 K. A. Varnhagen von Ense. Stuttgart and Tubingen, Cotta. 1830. 



