Received your two letters to-day simultaneously. Am highly delighted
about Förster, Spielhagen, etc. Well, I will not exult until I know
definitely how the session of Thursday resulted, since it is still
possible that an agreement was not reached. But then I shall scream
with delight. Oldenburg has been predisposed through me. A request to
join the committee will then have more of a chance to succeed if
coming from Förster and Spielhagen. Especially Spielhagen, because
Oldenburg is literary too and must therefore be taken hold of on the
fellow-craftsman side. The incendiary letter desired I will write to
the Excellency mentioned.[44] Next thing you will be putting me into
correspondence with Death.... Am eager for the next news; but should
not be surprised, and _not discouraged_, if the thing did not get into
running order at once.