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Wohler and Liebig. 
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Liebig to Wohler. 
“ Giessen, Odtober 19, 1830. 
“ I wish I could sufficiently express the pleasure which 
your last letter has given me. I need not add that I most 
sincerely accept your proposal. I love you as if the ties 
which bind us had united us from our very youth, and I 
always did find it difficult not to speak in my letters to you 
the language of intimacy. You may be convinced that I 
am yours with all my heart, and that our friendship greatly 
contributes to my happiness. All I fear is that you will by- 
and-bye think less highly of me when you will have become 
aware how very limited is the knowledge I have acquired. 
You complain of the translation of Berzelius’s writings, 
which, as you say, takes up all your time, and makes work 
of your own almost an impossibility. Dearest friend, I have 
long grieved to see that you waste your time on things which 
are unworthy of yourself, and I regret it all the more as I 
foresee that they will soon deprive me of your co-operation 
in our common work. To the deuce with your scribbling; 
and to the laboratory, where your place is, with yourself.” 
Wohler to Liebig. 
“ Berlin, November 17, 1830. 
“ You scold me for over-burdening myself, dear friend, 
without considering that life is much more expensive here 
than at Giessen. Believe me, that if this were not the case 
translations and lectures might go to the devil for all I care. 
I undertook the task, however, at a period when I had much 
more time to spare and a very small income, and now I am 
in honour and out of gratitude for Berzelius bound to 
finish it.” 
The letter from Liebig to which Wohler refers in the fol- 
lowing lines is not to be found in their correspondence. 
Undoubtedly Liebig has again reproached his friend with 
working too much, 
Wohler to Liebig. 
“ Berlin, December 18, 1830. 
“ Was there ever anything more funny than the terms on 
which we stand ? We are intimate friends, we work to- 
gether, we behave rudely or amiably as the occasion offers, 
