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to have one autograph more of the now Orleanist 

 Thiers in your archives. Duvergier de Hauranne, 

 too, came from his pilgrimage to Eisenach. The 

 Duchess goes to England. Keep both the letters, 

 the wicked and the simple and good one. 



Your 



A. v. H. 



I expect to come to Berlin on Saturday with the 

 King ; the Queen will go on Monday. 



ccx. 



KARL ALEXANDER, GRAND DUKE OF SAXE- WEIMAR, 

 TO HUMBOLDT. 



Etterslurg, 1st June, 1857. 



Your Excellency will perhaps have learnt already 

 that I have seen and repeatedly spoken with * * *, 

 but have after all not given him the appointment. 

 He has interested me I may even say that he has 

 pleased me ; but the secretary, who not only has to 

 inform me of all that appears worthy of notice in 

 science, art, and literature, but who has to manage 

 the correspondence, the verbal and social intercourse 

 in different languages such a secretary I did not be- 

 lieve to have found in him, and I durst not appoint 

 him on trial. Nothing else was left to me than to 

 withdraw. I did it in order to steer farther into 

 the ocean of inquiry, whether you still can and will 

 allow the goodness which you have hitherto always 

 evinced towards me to further lighten my path as 

 a star auguring happiness and good fortune. I may 

 indeed desire, but I dare not ask it, although we 



