
I have postponed to answer your letter of 27 January in the wanton hope to collect among your Danish friends an amount great enough to send you an order for a number of copies of your writings, that should be large sufficiently large to make impression on the newspapers in your own country.

My hope has been frustrated; I am myself a very lonely man without great connecions connections
,
especially in the last years. Therefore my dear friend I can only beg you accept my sincere sympathy with your
unfortunate condition. I have myself my considerable lot of difficulties. In these days I have got a little
harbour for my old father and now I am going to marry
without fortune and clinging all my expectations to the uncertain
fate of a book, which shall appear in the autumn. When this letter is in your hand, I most probably shall be a
married man.
I shall as every time be glad to hear from you.
Rudolf SchmidtHave you not seen the name of Clemens Petersen, newly in papers and periodicals—?
