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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