1. Probably from Varnhagen von Ense, who had written to TC, 4 Feb., that he was sending a book giving an account of the “ancient German Warrior” found in a peat bog nr. Paderborn (see TC to KAVE, 1 May 1843). The book was Ludwig Kohle, Handbuch einer historisch-statistisch-geographischen Beschreibung des Herzogthums Oldenburg, 2 vols. (Bremen, 1824). He also wrote that “the subject of your excellent ‘Past and Present’ increasingly becomes the main problem of the day here.
… So that you may see an example of how a young liberally minded gentleman in our own country tackles the same vitally important
question I enclose two short works of Herrn Friedmund von Arnim, a son of Bettina, who has never written anything before.—
Stahr's work on Bettina's ‘book for the King’ which has been suppressed in our country will certainly be interesting for you”
(trans., “New Carlyle Letters,” Carlyle Newsletter 8 [1987]: 45–46). Friedmund von Arnim (1814–83), Bettina's third son; Adolf Stahr, Bettina und ihr Königsbuch (Hamburg, 1844); and Bettina (Elisabeth) von Arnim (1785–1859), Dies Buch gehört dem König, 2 vols. (Berlin, 1843).
