136.HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN.
Potsdam,October 15th, 1849.
Potsdam,October 15th, 1849.
Potsdam,October 15th, 1849.
Potsdam,October 15th, 1849.
I hope, my dear friend, that my “Views of Nature,” enlarged, and, for two-thirds of it, almost re-written, are at last in your hands! It was owing to an unfortunate confusion, occasioned by my long absence from Berlin, that this my favorite work was so long in reaching my favorite reader. Perhaps you will derive a brief pleasure from contrasting the picture of the nocturnal din of the words with that of the stillness of high noon—vol. i., pp. 333 and 337; or from glancing at the golden visions of young Astorpileo, vol. ii., 352.
In love and friendship, yours,
In love and friendship, yours,
In love and friendship, yours,
In love and friendship, yours,
In haste.
In haste.
In haste.
In haste.
A. v. Humboldt.
Increase your collection of autographs by a very agreeable letter from the man who now lives in Brussels. The phrase “votre fortune morale” is used with great freedom. But the newspaper, all disfigured with bloodstains! What a, year, in which all the feelings of the heart run wild!