Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense.: From 1827 to 1858. With extracts from Varnhagen's diaries, and letters of Varnhagen and others to HumboldtHumboldt, Alexander von
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Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense.: From 1827 to 1858. With extracts from Varnhagen's diaries, and letters of Varnhagen and others to Humboldt
Humboldt, Alexander von
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 -- Correspondence
_I.e._ too much of a Red Republican.
Footnote 60:
A Hospital near Berlin, administered by Protestant Sisters of Mercy.
Footnote 61:
Leben des Generals Buelow von Dennewitz. Von K. A. Varnhagen von Ense.
Berlin, 1853.
Footnote 62:
Bettina.
Footnote 63:
Informing that on the 17th is the golden wedding of Savigny.
Footnote 64:
The Prussian order of the Red Eagle.
Footnote 65:
Ludwig von Gerlach, in the Second Chamber, had called the
representative Bethmann-Hollweg an adopted son of Prussia.
Footnote 66:
Mons. Mathieu had protested against the statement on the title-page,
that Mons. Barral was appointed editor by the author.
Footnote 67:
Savigny’s golden wedding.
Footnote 68:
Minister.
Footnote 69:
By Pertz.
Footnote 70:
The province of Pomerania is divided into “Vorpommern”—_Fore
Pomerania_, and “Hinterpommern”—_Hind Pomerania_; _i.e._ Pomerania
before and behind the Oder.—_Tr._
Footnote 71:
Louis Napoleon.—_Tr._
Footnote 72:
Of M. Borsig, a machinist, a few days after that of Mad. Amalia Beer.
The old man of eighty-five attended both of them.
Footnote 73:
In marble.—_Tr._
Footnote 74:
Waldemar of Prussia, the traveller in India and Brazil.—_Tr._
Footnote 75:
Historia general de Brazil, tomo primeiro. The pieces wanting here he
had already sent as specimens.
Footnote 76:
Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen’s dedication of his book to the Emperor
over his own signature. The title-page contains the words: “Por um
socio do Instituto Historico do Brazil, Natural de Sorocaba” (the
native place of the author, west of Rio de Janeiro).
Footnote 77:
These two words are illegible.
Footnote 78:
A Brandenburg family of the Middle Ages, who came near hanging one of
the Electors of Brandenburg, predecessor of the Kings of Prussia. They
were representatives of those “Robber Knights” who long successfully
resisted the introduction of regular government by the Electors.—_Tr._
Footnote 79:
“is married to,” evidently omitted in the original. Humboldt took a
great interest in Moellhausen, and wrote a preface to his book on the
above journey.—_Tr._
Footnote 80:
The Mark Brandenburg, a very sandy province, sometimes facetiously
called the sand-box of the Holy Roman Empire.—_Tr._
Footnote 81:
Pourtalès, conspicuous in the Neufchatel embroglio.—_Tr._
Footnote 82:
The Fox, i. e. Louis Napoleon.—_Tr._
Footnote 83:
The Koelnische Gymnasium, Berlin, of which August was director.
Footnote 84:
The King of Naples, known in this country as King Bomba. In Naples the
best maccaroni is manufactured. Was this letter really directed to
Louis Philippe, or was there not a mistake in the name? Was not Louis
Philippe dead before that time?—_Translator._
Footnote 85:
A German proverbial expression for feeling very uncomfortable.—_Tr._
Footnote 86:
A fashionable preacher in Berlin.—_Tr._
Footnote 87:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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