Autograph letter signed : London, to Dr. Gustav Schlesier, 1839 June 8.

Thanking him for sending the two volumes of his book and praising it; saying "I have read over the two volumes, and with great satisfaction. Gentz heretofore was little known to me, except by translated Pamphlets of his which did not promise much : but I now see him clearly in your animated pages, as an actor in the drama of things, as a bodily man waking what was given him to do; and am thankful for it. The remainder of his Life-history, whenever it appears, shall be right welcome to me. I have now for a good many years past, little or no connexion with Reviews foreign or other : but your Book has been put under the eyes of those that have; so remarkable a Book, I should think, may will claim notice from them by and by. All in my circle who have yet read it write in approval, in assurances of having been well entertained. I hope you will proceed far in this course. Germany has many men, unknown, and yet deserving to be known. Germany is not a self-proclaiming Nation; she is a silent Nation, great Germany, for which I love her too: but the noteworthy ought to be noted. Books of Memoirs, I observe also, are the most universal and unquestionable of Books. Let our Life-theory alter as it may; the Life of a living man is at all times interesting to all men;" asking in a postscript, if he knows Mr. Dorguth, "A Lawyer . . . who occupies himself with Philosophy," and if so, to tell him that his books "have been forwarded with recommendation to Sir William Hamilton in Edinburgh, the only man of this country who works now with any decisiveness in that province."