Note 1 — Chapter XXXIX · A Friend in Need—Ludwig’s Proclamation
Ethel Harriet Hearn translation
Between Bismarck and Ludwig there had always existed very kindly relations. “I was particularly honoured with his esteem,” the Prince once said.1 “We corresponded on important political questions until the last years of his life. When he expressed his views he was as amiable towards my person as he was intellectual in his judgment of the different questions that were being discussed.” At this desperate moment both the King and Count Dürckheim bethought themselves of the great Chancellor of the German Empire.