23 Humboldt to Varnhagen
Berlin, May 31st, 1836.
[Concerning the article in the Allgemeine Zeitung, against Raumer,14 written, it was said, by Major von Radowitz.]
The correspondent had, it seems, little to fear from the mendacious declaration of this “defloured.” In the general view on the shallowness and dough-facedness, of the great historian, I am of his opinion. Moreover reading Herr von Raumer’s books is like being “whipped,” and that I neither suffer nor pardon.
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