DENMARK. Johan Nicolai MADVIG (1804–1886), Danish philologist and politician. L.S., Smidrtrup near Vedbak, June 16, 1879, to Baron Arthur Pavlovitch de Mohrenheim (1824–1906), “envoy of His Majesty the Emperor of All Russia to Copenhagen”; 2 pages, in-4 (small tears, no missing pages); in French. He thanks him most warmly for having attended “the celebrations of our fourth centennial and for playing such a prominent role in them. The memory of this kindness and of the words you spoke on several occasions will not easily fade, neither among the professors nor among our students, who were deeply moved by them.”