Item 122 - Letter from M. A. von Bethmann-Hollweg

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Berlin - A letter introducing a young German clergyman, Immanuel Hengstenberg (son of Professor Hengstenberg at Berlin), who intends spending six months becoming acquainted with the religious and scientific state of England: 'I should feel very thankful if you would have the goodness to let him see the magnificent institutions of your university and to introduce him to your colleagues, who may give him the greatest interest. Especially I remember Rev. Carus [William Carus]'. BH would also enjoy a few hours with WW discussing public matters - 'though, indeed, they offer not at all a satisfactory aspect in this very moment. I fear that it is only the beginning for a period of war and destruction, by which neither the moral nor the intellectual state of Europe will gain. He, who first provoked this quarrel, has taken upon him an immense responsibility'.