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
Since you like everything individual, I shall answer your kindness with
another very small one. I make you a present of a letter of Guizot,
which he wrote to me to Koenigsberg, not without design. The underlining
belongs to me, as you would guess yourself. I showed the letter to the
King. It was written when the Belgian (the King of Belgium), Bulow, and
Guizot had been in Windsor, and when his affairs looked promising, as
they do now again, as Thiers at once shows himself so weak and yielding,
and Palmerston so dogmatical and defying. But do not let the letter out
of your hands.
For the news about the brothers Grimm I thank you most cordially. It is
very important to me to keep “au courant” with the course of passing
events. In the months during which I lived on the “historical hill,”[24]
I moved uncontrolled in the same direction, though surrounded by
conflicting elements.
Respecting the brothers Grimm, the King had given orders to others, not
to me; but up to the return from Königsberg, nothing was done. I
therefore addressed a memorial to the King on the actions in Königsberg
of the Provincial Diet, and on the necessity of acting authoritatively
in things which interest all hearts, in order to secure their
affections—and therefore to bestow a professorship upon the brothers
Grimm, Albrecht, and Dahlmann. There is little hope for Dahlmann.
Albrecht received a call, but refused it, giving as a reason his
gratitude to Saxony. It would have been a satisfaction to the seven
professors, could Albrecht have become professor in Berlin.
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