Be so kind as to send me back this page. I make use of your fine translation in a note which is now being printed in my _Kosmos_. You will permit me to say: “according to Spiker’s translation.” It will give me pleasure to do so. Shall I excite the ire of the Marquis August von Schlegel or of Tieck Acorombonus? Please tell me whether they have also translated that passage? Many kind regards. HT. NOTE OF VARNHAGEN.—Unfortunately Spiker’s translation is bad in every respect. 56. HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. MONDAY NIGHT, _May 3, 1841_. I am afraid, my dear friend, that I shall be obliged to go to Potsdam again on Thursday, and thence to Paris on the 10th or 12th. I am to send Cotta more copy before I go. Let me not be suspended so long between condemnation and indulgence. Pray send me a few words with the parcel. Yours, A. V. HUMBOLDT. 57. HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. TUESDAY, _May 4th, 1841_. MY DEAR FRIEND:—Even after deducting the kind expressions written expressly for my tranquillity, there still remains more than enough in your letter of to-day to comfort me. The penance,[27] therefore, which I assign you is to receive me to-morrow morning at 11 o’clock, for a few moments, to accept my thanks. The “_schmeichle mich_” must be a clerical error; as for me I am unconscious of it. The false use of the accusative case at p. 44, you will have to show me. It cannot be “_Einsicht in den Zusammenhang?_” because it is looking _into_. I shall expunge Mr. Spiker. I had a presentiment of the end, and would rather even omit the English as well, which, after all, is rather a praise of ignorance, than indicative of the increase of enjoyment to be derived from science. I see that you give me full liberty concerning the “Saturnalia.” Speaking of the Dane, you say: “I only mention, I do not object.”