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(j'ai presque dit dans les trois derniers siecles) ne doit 

 me rien faire perdre dans ton esprit. 

 Tout a toi de cceur et d'ame, 



F. ARAGO. 



CLYIII. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



Berlin, Friday, 14th April, 1854. 



The King having already paid his visit to church* on 

 Thursday, I dined to-day once more at Charlottenburg, 

 and am enabled to give you. the gratifying news that, 

 as the King told me, " he had known of the festive 

 day (not from Uhde 1 !),f and had long ago made every 

 preparation for it." The ingredients of the intellectual 

 or material entertainment are, I must allow, buried for 

 me in Cimmerian darkness. 



Your faithful, 



HUMBOLDT. 



The Prince of Prussia knows nothing about the 

 invitation to noce et festin. 



CLIX. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



Potsdam, ^.tJiJuly, 1854. 



As, thanks to my American connections, I have 

 drawn upon me the favour of the Peace Association, I 



* The King was in the habit of receiving the sacrament regularly at Easter 

 every year, and then dined altogether in private. Tn. 



t First a Privy Councillor, subsequently Minister of Justice ; displaced by 

 the Eevolution of 1848 ; afterwards again popular at court on account of his 

 sanctity. TE. 



