I communicate you the inclosed despatch from Copenhagen, to inform you
of the new “Seccatura,” which will wait upon you in the shape of a
sea-dog of the Sound, to ask your advice, and assistance as to a voyage
around the globe. This letter having no further object, I pray God,
Monsieur le Baron de Humboldt, to keep you in his holy and especial
care.
Given at our Palace at Potsdam, 29th April, 1849 (1843?), near midnight.
Signed,
FREDERIC GUILLAUME.
NOTE OF VARNHAGEN.—Every word exactly as above—to be understood as a
joke.
81.
KING CHRISTIAN VIII. OF DENMARK TO HUMBOLDT.
COPENHAGEN, _May 3d, 1843_.