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was fruitless. Therefore I return to the source, the 

 ever-plentiful and kind one, and sign myself 

 Your most grateful and devoted 



KARL ALEXANDER. 



Weimar, 22nd of April, 1857. 



CCVIII. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



Berlin, 28tk May, Thursday. 



I am getting alarmed, dear friend, on account of 

 Weimar. The Grand Duke is everywhere, save at 

 Weimar-Athens. What becomes of our warmly 

 recommended friend ? Has he had an interview 

 with our eloquent Prince ? You have omitted to 

 congratulate me on the order of Grand Officer,* which 

 the " Hamburg Moniteur" bestows upon me, but 

 which I received fifteen years ago from Guizot. It 

 is very interesting to hear Eaumer ; he was in Pesth, 

 Milan, dining with the Archduke, and with Cavour. 

 He has returned not quite without a bias in favour of 

 the Austrian Government in Lombardy ; somewhat 

 in the same way as republicans who visit the United 

 States, where arsenic, torture, and Fremont's negroes 

 cause to Cuba-greedy Buchanan an indictable colic. 

 Multa sunt eadem sed aliter. The Russian Minister 

 Noroff, Department of Culture and Education, whose 

 leg was shot off at the hip at Borodino, and who 

 was in Egypt and Palestine with his wooden leg, 

 even climbing the Pyramids, is here, and sitting 

 among the students, as an occasional auditor of 

 Johannes Mullerf and Dieterici;J his companion, the 



* Of the Legion of Honour. TR. f The celebrated physiologist. TR. 

 | The statist. TR. 



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