DEAREST FRIEND,—All ready for the journey. Your slips come in. Thirty-two men are day and night printing, composing, correcting, etc. I am ready. Venn will print nothing of yours, and will not even send Lepsius’ Essay to the missionaries, that they may not be driven mad. I do not know what books you have of mine: if I can have them by Saturday morning, 9 o’clock, good—if not, you must bring them yourself. George goes with me, instead of Ernest. [61.] HEIDELBERG, _June 23, 1854._ DEAR MAX M.,—Allow me, through this note, to recommend to you, in my own name, as well as in the name of the Duke of Coburg and Baron Stockmar, the bearer of this, Dr. Wilhelm Pertsch, who is going to England on Sanskrit business, and needs kind advice and a little assistance in his undertaking. Bunsen, who sends you his heartiest greetings, had at first offered to give him a letter to Wilson, but thought afterwards a word from you was worth more with Wilson than a letter from any one else. The Bunsens have quite decided now to settle at Heidelberg for at least a year, and are already hoping for a speedy visit from you, by which I hope also to profit. He is studying upstairs with great delight your official and scientific _vade mecum_ on the Turanian languages. Yesterday, by means of a breakfast, I introduced him to most of the scientific and literary celebrities here—such as H. Gagern, Mohl, Dusch, Harper, Jolly, etc., etc. George came with them, and helped in arranging things, but returns to-morrow. A thousand good wishes. And always keep in friendly remembrance Your true friend, K. MEYER. [62.] HEIDELBERG, CHARLOTTENBERG, _June 29, 1854._ I cannot let George, who took care of me here, return without a token for you of my being alive. I read your book for the English officers partly on the road, and partly here, with real delight and sincere admiration. What an advance from a “Guide Interprête,” or a “Tableau Statistique,” to such an introduction to languages and nationalities. The map, too, is excellent. The excellent Petermann must make us several, just of this kind, for our unborn Mithridates. I should like to scold your English reviser for several Gallicisms, for which I feel certain you are not to blame. Rawlinson’s barbaric _débris_ instead of “ruins,” and _fauteuil_ instead of “chair,” which in French as well as in English is the right expression for a professor’s chair; whilst _fauteuil_ is only used in French to denote the “President’s chair” (for instance, in the Institute), and is quite inadmissable in English, even by the “Upholsterer.” The third I have forgotten but not forgiven.