Dear Veltheim,
It will surprise you to receive a letter from me, whom you will by now have all but forgotten.
I will explain to you briefly the reason why I am writing. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire
You know the present state of affairs in Germany respecting the
press. The censorship makes virtually every rational undertaking
impossible. On the other hand, such a confusion of views prevails that
German literature, after having laboriously achieved a certain unity,
is threatened with
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