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sometimes imparted in due form by letter or by word of 
mouth. He obtained access to the Hennenhofer memoirs, 
and had full confidence in the genuineness of the revelation. 
In 1835 he received an anonymous letter from Ansbach con- 
taining the following statement: “Tord Daniel Alban Dur. 
teal, advocate of the Royal Court in London, said to me: ‘I 
am firmly convinced that Kaspar Hauser was murdered. It was 
all done by bribery. Stanhope has no money, and lives by this 
affair.’ ” 
In this, his latest work upon the subject, Daumer gives new 
and suggestive information respecting Lord Stanhope’s character 
and conduct. Feuerbach’s papers had recently been placed in 
Daumer’s hands for examination, and he was greatly surprised at 
the revelations contained in some of the letters. He found that 
Stanhope had played false with both himself and Feuerbach. 
In one of the letters, Stanhope declared that Daumer was not 
in his right mind when he had charge of Kaspar Hauser in 1828-29. 
He said also that he had tried to hinder Daumer from publishing 
his first book, as Feuerbach’s work rendered it needless, and 
Daumer’s would only injure the cause. He reminded Feuerbach 
that he had seen the letter, and approved of it, but Daumer had 
never answered it, and had not refrained from publishing his 
book. 
Daumer never received such a letter. 
After Feuerbach’s death Stanhope criticised Feuerbach’s book 
in the most inimical manner, although previously his letters to 
Feuerbach had been full of praises of the work. Stanhope and 
Meyer tried to bring Feuerbach’s testimony into discredit by 
asserting that the great jurist was already failing in intellect when 
he wrote that work, and was himself conscious of his mental 
weakness. To support this charge a part of a letter is quoted, in 
which Feuerbach complained that he was losing his memory, and 
was no longer capable of abstract thought. He said that his book 
on Kaspar Hauser showed signs of his weakness. 
But Feuerbach went on to say that he was as capable as ever of 
writing facts, and that his malady was only beginning when that