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CXIIL 



FRIEDRICH EUECKERT TO HUMBOLDT. 



Berlin, March, 1846. 



I had the misfortune to miss your Excellency twice, 

 when calling to express my thanks for your kindness 

 and affability : and as I am off to-morrow to my rural 

 solitude, I bid you heartily farewell for the summer. 

 God grant you many a long day wherein successfully 

 to accomplish your great work a work which, at this 

 moment, lies nearer to my heart than any of my own. 

 A monument of honour, I look upon it, for Germany 

 its representative before all Europe. As a German, 

 I am proud you have not written it in French. 



I would also beg leave to introduce to you my eldest 

 son, now occupied in private tuition at Jena. He must 

 now try his fortune with your Excellency, by the 

 delivery of this letter. 



In conclusion, I beg of you to intercede for me with 

 their Majesties, whom I was not fortunate enough to 

 see this winter. May it be vouchsafed me to produce 

 something worthy of their approval and of yours. 

 You, I trust, will be assured that my disposition un- 

 suits me to appear before the public of a capital, and 

 is rather suited to cultivate the Muses in the quiet soli- 

 tude of the country ; and thither I am about to retire, 

 grateful for the high favour of the King, and full of 

 the sincerest veneration for your Excellency. 



EUECKERT. 



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