158. HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN.
Friedrich Kapp translation
Berlin, Friday, April 14th, 1854.
As the King held his churching on Thursday, I dined in Charlottenburg to-day, and can give you news agreeable to us, that the King, as he told me, had known of the day of honor[67] (not by Uhden!!)[68] and had prepared everything for it long ago. The ingredients of the spiritual or material feeding are buried in Cimmerian darkness.
Your faithful
Humboldt.
The Prince of Prussia knows nothing of the invitation for noce et festin.