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in better train ; perhaps, however, not irrevocably 

 given up. I must therefore most earnestly beg you 

 not to let those lines go out of your hands ! They 

 would certainly find their way into the newspapers, 

 and tend to frustrate my exertions in an important 

 matter. The King sent for me very early, and it 

 redounds to his honour that he heartily thanked me 

 for the free expression of my opinion. 



I did not go to Potsdam to-day, because I wished to 

 urge, in a full sitting of the Academicians, the election 

 of the talented Jewish natural philosopher, Eiess. It 

 turned out honourably for the Academy ; only three 

 black-balls. 



I shall be in attendance upon the King from to- 

 morrow until Sunday. I will try to rout out for 

 Stuttgart some autograph poem of importance of 

 "Wilhelm von Humboldt's. What I have are, unfortu- 

 nately, only copies. Take care of your health, my 

 dear friend. It is not quite firmly restored. Yours, 



Thursday Niglit. A. V. HuMBOLDT. 



LXVIII. 



HUMBOLDT TO YARNHAGEN. 



Friday, June 24, 1842. 



Your kind remembrance, my dear and accomplished 

 friend, conferred upon me a benefit so much the greater 

 as I came back from Sans Souci greatly suffering 

 from a cold. Besides, I live in all the horrors of 

 moving to dreary lodgings in an absurd part of that 

 Siberian quarter of the town, the Oranienburger Strasse, 

 and have hardly an inkstand upon my table. 



For the present only the expression of my grati- 



