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should inspire the young man with the idea of seek- 

 ing in our rich Archives further matter for his work, 

 and applying to me for permission so to do, I should 

 grant it immediately, following it up by the sub- 

 stantial part. The time from February next year 

 seems to me the best for the literary researches. 

 The real purpose of this journey would remain a 

 secret, and thus I should feel quite at liberty to see 

 him and take him or not. I thank you with all my 

 heart for the printed enclosure. You have also 

 performed this by no means easy task, with a 

 master-hand ; you were better fitted for it than 

 any other, because you, more than most men, have 

 spoken to the world by deeds. I mean to obtain 

 ' ' Petermann's Journal." My admiration for you is an 

 earnest of the real sincerity of my aspiration. 

 Your interest for it I beg you to continue, as also 

 your kindness for your grateful admirer and servant, 



KARL ALEXANDER. 



cxcv. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



Berlin, 7th February, 1857. 



Whenever I read anything at Berlin that excites 

 my literary or political interest, my thoughts revert 

 at once to you. Lasaulx,* at Munich, of the worship- 

 ful Company of Baader, was known to me hitherto only 

 as a man of the " Kreuzzeitung," and of Schubert's 

 " Shadow World." In the new historical work which 



* Lasaulx Franz von Baader Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, German 

 philosophers, of rather cloudy and illiberal tendencies. TR. 



