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shooting box of the great Elector, and therefore' held 

 only by hereditary tenancy, Wilhelm being the first 

 who possessed it as a manor, and therefore Schinkel* 

 pulled down four turrets in order to preserve the one 

 ancient tower of the time of the great Elector) and 

 Eingenwalde, near Soldin, in the Newmark. Eingen- 

 walde afterwards belonged to me, and then to Counts 

 Eeede and Achim Arnim. Wilhelm, at his death, 

 possessed Tegel, Burgorner, and Auleben (acquired 

 through his wife at the time the Dacheroden entail 

 was cancelled), Hadersleben, in the circle of Magde- 

 burg, and the Castle of Ottmachau in Silesia, which 

 after the Peace of Paris was given him as a dotation.f 



Sonnet I., 394, refers to a second child, I think, which 

 Madame von Humboldt lost in Eome. One was 

 buried in Paris. 



I implore you not to communicate to the compiler 

 anything as if coming from me. He would certainly 

 mention it in his Preface, and then I should be respon- 

 sible for much that I fear. 



Excuse this stercoran-babble of a hash. 



A. HT. 



Note ly Varnhagen. He had, I suppose, just been reading of the 

 Stercoranists in Strauss' s " Christian Doctrine." Hence the word 

 here .J 



* Schickel, a Berlin architect, to whom that city owes a considerable 

 portion of its great architectural splendour. TE. 



f He was one of the Prussian diplomatists who signed that peace. TR. 



J Stercoranists. " Quasi videlicet doceamus, corpus Christi dentibus 

 laniari, et in insta/r alterius cujusdam, cibi in corpore humano digeri " (For- 

 mula Concordise), in reply to the Calvinist insinuations of " Stercoranism." 

 Strauss, Dogmatik, II., p. 601, has some very cynical remarks on the same 

 subjects. TR. 



