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Veuillez recevoir les reinerciments des miens pour 

 votre aimable souvenir et Tassurance de ma vieille 

 amitie. 



METTERNICH. 



CXXIII. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



Berlin, 30th May, 1846. 



You may, my dear friend, not be indifferent as to the 

 possession of the poem of the Crown Prince of Bavaria.* 

 The language is less unpalatable than the Walhalla 

 style,f and some passages in it are tender, though of 

 no very great poetical pretensions. 



Yours, 



A. v. HUMBOLDT. 



CXXIV. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



Potsdam, 14th November, 1846. 



What a brilliant reception, my dear friend, the fifth 

 volume of my brother has met with at your hands ! 

 Forgive me, pray, if, owing to the sad pressure of 

 business on the cold " historical hill,"J I omitted, in 

 sending it, to add some few words of kind remem- 

 brance. With you I deplore the omissions to which 

 you so kindly draw my attention. I think what is 

 wanting might be supplied in the next volume. It was 

 thought that the letters ought to be printed just as 



* Maximilian, the present King. The poem is upon the death of the 

 Princess Wilhelm, whose daughter he subsequently married. TE. 



f The style of King Louis, the founder of the Walhalla, near Eatisbon, 

 who is famous for the " lapidary" terseness of his language. TK. 

 Sans Souci. TK. 



