——Finally, thank you for your continued concern for me, an old friend. However, Arthur, for the sake of our friendship, please do not send the Tsar's gilded spittoon with your letters in the future. The Tsar finds them awkward, and I also feel uncomfortable using them. Of course, a lowly person like me cannot be compared to the majestic body of the Tsar, gifting me a spittoon he can't get used to is indeed considered a grand favor. But as I said earlier, although I am lowly, and always short of money, I am not lacking in spittoons, for I have plenty of Paris Republicans' brains to hold my phlegm (I do not mean to mock Alexander here, although I seriously suspect his brain is connected with other Republicans').
As a poet who likes to write political commentary, Heinrich Heine indeed has reasons to be renowned in Europe.
Although his opponents often criticize him for being sharp-tongued, you have to admit, even a casual letter written by Heine is very popular and topical.
