125. HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. BERLIN, _November 28th, 1846_. I do not answer to-day, my dear friend, in regard to your splendid Memoirs. How everything succeeds in your hands! To-day I recommend you an able Frenchman, M. Galuski, who knows Germany better than we do, the author of an essay on A. W. Schlegel. He will stay but a few days. Preserve the autograph of Barante.[50] A. V. HUMBOLDT. SATURDAY. 126. HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. BERLIN, _December 6th, 1846_. There will be perhaps some delay, my dear friend, in your receiving the “Cinq jours de Berlin,” in which I am spoken of by the Berliners (who are introduced as speaking themselves), as a tolerably pleasant tattler, but in which I am alluded to rather unkindly, as to my moral character. If all my speeches lack consistency, I apprehend for the durability of the system of the world, the Kosmos. Mr. Barrière will probably have called on you the sixth day, and you will have suggested all that to him. The paper contains some excellent things, Cracoviana, about the vote of Prussia and Mr. de Kanitz. I send you for your autograph collection a flattering letter of Mignet, and a letter of mine, written in 1801, at Carthagena, in South America, at a turning point in my life, and addressed to “Citizen” Baudin, who, on board of the Perron, made a voyage round the world. This letter was written at a time when probably people in Europe had ceased to be addressed any more as “citizens.” Baudin, instead of doubling Cape Horn, and receiving me at Lima, went round the Cape of Good Hope to Australia. Your old friend, A. V. HUMBOLDT. SUNDAY. I inclose an excellent letter of my brother to Koerner, which will be published in the sixth volume; but you must return this copy. 127. MIGNET TO HUMBOLDT. PARIS, _July 1st, 1846_. DEAR BARON, AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS COLLEAGUE: