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and recommended to me from Paris. Pardon my in- 

 trusion, but we must share with each other now and 

 then the inconvenience of letting the people stare at us. 



Thursday. A. V. HUMBOLDT. 



XCIY. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



Berlin, Tuesday night. One o' Clock, 

 June 3rd, 1845. 



This evening, my dear friend, the whole mystery 

 has been cleared up ! They forwarded me, this after- 

 noon, all jumbled together, fourteen packages, which ? 

 by some oversight, had been addressed (December 

 May) to me at Berlin ; and which were lying at the 

 Foreign-office. We recognised your hand at once. 

 The parcel was addressed to me, and contained, safely 

 sealed, your important and talented political letter, 

 and the parcel for the Comtesse d'Agoult, which I 

 send you herewith. I am entirely innocent of the 

 whole affair. 



In the "Bhein- und Mosel-Zeitung," No. 122, May 

 29th, I am accused of Voltairianism ; of denying all 

 Revelation; of conspiring with Marheineke, Bruno 

 Bauer, and Feuerbach;* and even of having caused 

 the expedition against Lucerne, ipsissimis verbis, and 

 all on account of "Kosmos," p. 381. The King had 

 been already informed that the book was antichristian 

 and revolutionary. So far from that being the case, 

 however, the King writes to me, that " he could only 



* Ludwig Feuerbach, a celebrated Rationalistic writer, the author of a 

 book entitled, " The Essence of Christianity," translated by Miss Evans, pub- 

 lished by Chapman. TK. 



