 In 1817, Jacobi made reference in a letter to his friend Johann Neeb to a favourable review of the second volume of his collected works by Hegel (Jacobi, 1825–27: vol. 2, 467–68; di Giovanni, 1994: 165–166).  There was no apparent trace left in his comments of the anger that Hegel’s essay, ‘Glauben und Wissen’ (‘Faith and Knowledge’), had aroused in him in 1801 (Jacobi, 1803: 221). Jacobi allowed that Hegel’s interpretation of his thought might be the correct one, and conceded that the two men might come to a meeting of minds, were it not for old age that prevented him from studying Hegel’s philosophy.