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business, to take the affair of the Grimms in hand 

 an affair essentially German and of national import- 

 ance. 



The interference of a number of persons in these 

 sort of matters is injurious, though excusable from the 

 general interest they create. 



I wonder, my dear friend, if you will be able and 

 willing to read these few lines, the sense of which is 

 less open to criticism than the sound. Diplomatist 

 that you are, I need not implore you not to read my 

 letter to the "Child;"* still she must be made ac- 

 quainted with the real posture of affairs, in respect of 

 which I have been guilty of no neglect. 



A. HT. 



A most melancholy circumstance has occurred ; the 

 only son of my friend, the astronomer Bessel, a young 

 man, twenty-five years of age, of extraordinary mathe- 

 matical talent (he was at the School of Architecture), 

 died yesterday. Nervous fever. 



Bopp's Eeview gives me great pleasure. 



XLIX. 



GUIZOT TO HUMBOLDT. 



Londre8 t 24 Aout, 1840. 



MONSIEUR LE BARON, Yous etes parfaitement aim- 

 able d'avoir pense a m'envoyer les deux nouveaux 

 volumes des ceuvres de Monsieur votre frere. Je vous 

 remercie, et du present qui a eu lui-meme tant de 

 valeur, et du souvenir qui en a au moins autant pour 

 moi. J'espere bien qu'a travers toutes nos affaires, 



* Bettina von Arnim. 



