Prince August thanks Goethe for sending him two letters and a copy of Mahomet. He notes that he has been as sick as last Spring and 1796 since 28th November, adding that he feels so weak that it is as if he helped Napoleon to settle and unpack the Egyptian pyramids in St Claud. He claims that this is why he can’t compare Mahomet wit the original, instead looking at it as a German masterpiece; Voltaire made Muhammad too evil a companion.