CHRISTIANIA, _20th February, 1860_.
You cannot imagine, dear Ole Bull, how happy I am at your success,
and that in this great work you, like the gods, are ever young....
Eight days since, when the first good news came in prose and verse
(I take the Bergen papers), I had to run down to your brother
Randulf, to tell him.
After a mention of the assembling of the Swedish Parliament and the
outlook of the Norse interests in that stirring period, when the
question of the governorship of Norway by a Swede or Norwegian was being
considered, and telling Ole Bull that it would be a good time for him to
make his influence felt in Sweden by a visit there, he concluded:—
Now when all with you is as you wish it, come this way and give
vent to your wrath, for it is not well that you should have too
much good fortune—not even you. The gods themselves could not bear
it; the Roman Triumvirs, remember, had their buffoons in their
triumphal cars. Do you go to Russia or England? Wherever you go,
God bless you! Greet Björnson.