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Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense.: From 1827 to 1858. With extracts from Varnhagen's diaries, and letters of Varnhagen and others to Humboldt

Name: Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense.: From 1827 to 1858. With extracts from Varnhagen's diaries, and letters of Varnhagen and others to Humboldt
Author: Humboldt, Alexander von

Humboldt, Alexander von

Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 -- Correspondence

In accustomed reverence to the end of life,
                                     Your Excellency’s most obedient
                                                         F. W. BESSEL.

 NOTE BY HUMBOLDT.—The last letter but one which I received from the
    great and noble man.




                                  112.
                        VICTOR HUGO TO HUMBOLDT.


                                                     _March 20th, 1845._

You have been kind enough, my Lord Baron, and illustrious colleague, to
promise your acceptance of a copy of “Notre Dame de Paris,” and the
further good office of offering it in my name to your august Sovereign,
my sympathy with and admiration for whom are well known to you. To
“Notre Dame de Paris” I add my solemn discourse before the Academy. It
would make me happy to think that it gave you a little pleasure to
receive this mark of my high and profound regard.

                                            Yours,
                                                            VICTOR HUGO.




                                  113.
                    FRIEDRICH RUECKERT TO HUMBOLDT.


                                                  BERLIN, _March, 1846_.

I had the misfortune of twice missing your Excellency when I called to
give you my thanks for your great kindness, and at the same time to bid
you a hearty farewell, as to-morrow I hasten to my rustic solitude. May
God grant you many felicitous hours for the happy completion of your
great work, for which I now am more heartily anxious than for any work
of my own. For it is the monument of honor for Germany, her
representative work before the nations of Europe; and I, as a German,
feel proud that you did not write it in French. I would also ask your
leave to introduce to you my eldest son, who is private tutor at the
university of Jena; now, he may try his luck himself with you, as bearer
of this letter. Finally, I beg of you that you will speak in my behalf
with their Majesties, whom it was not my fortune to see this winter. May
I yet be permitted to work something worthy of their approbation and of
yours; but may you also be persuaded that it is not for me to appear in
person before the public of the capital, but to shape my thoughts in the
solitude and quiet of rural life, whither I am now permitted to
withdraw, grateful for the highest favor of his Majesty, and with the
purest reverence for you.

                                                               RUECKERT.




                                  114.
                     ALEXANDER MANZONI TO HUMBOLDT.

 (FROM THE FRENCH.)


                                                MILAN, _Dec. 6th, 1844_.

 MONSIEUR LE BARON:

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Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense.: From 1827 to 1858. With extracts from Varnhagen's diaries, and letters of Varnhagen and others to HumboldtHumboldt, Alexander von

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Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense.: From 1827 to 1858. With extracts from Varnhagen's diaries, and letters of Varnhagen and others to Humboldt

Humboldt, Alexander von

Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 -- Correspondence

In accustomed reverence to the end of life,
                                     Your Excellency’s most obedient
                                                         F. W. BESSEL.

 NOTE BY HUMBOLDT.—The last letter but one which I received from the
    great and noble man.




                                  112.
                        VICTOR HUGO TO HUMBOLDT.


                                                     _March 20th, 1845._

You have been kind enough, my Lord Baron, and illustrious colleague, to
promise your acceptance of a copy of “Notre Dame de Paris,” and the
further good office of offering it in my name to your august Sovereign,
my sympathy with and admiration for whom are well known to you. To
“Notre Dame de Paris” I add my solemn discourse before the Academy. It
would make me happy to think that it gave you a little pleasure to
receive this mark of my high and profound regard.

                                            Yours,
                                                            VICTOR HUGO.




                                  113.
                    FRIEDRICH RUECKERT TO HUMBOLDT.


                                                  BERLIN, _March, 1846_.

I had the misfortune of twice missing your Excellency when I called to
give you my thanks for your great kindness, and at the same time to bid
you a hearty farewell, as to-morrow I hasten to my rustic solitude. May
God grant you many felicitous hours for the happy completion of your
great work, for which I now am more heartily anxious than for any work
of my own. For it is the monument of honor for Germany, her
representative work before the nations of Europe; and I, as a German,
feel proud that you did not write it in French. I would also ask your
leave to introduce to you my eldest son, who is private tutor at the
university of Jena; now, he may try his luck himself with you, as bearer
of this letter. Finally, I beg of you that you will speak in my behalf
with their Majesties, whom it was not my fortune to see this winter. May
I yet be permitted to work something worthy of their approbation and of
yours; but may you also be persuaded that it is not for me to appear in
person before the public of the capital, but to shape my thoughts in the
solitude and quiet of rural life, whither I am now permitted to
withdraw, grateful for the highest favor of his Majesty, and with the
purest reverence for you.

                                                               RUECKERT.




                                  114.
                     ALEXANDER MANZONI TO HUMBOLDT.

 (FROM THE FRENCH.)


                                                MILAN, _Dec. 6th, 1844_.

 MONSIEUR LE BARON:

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Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense.: From 1827 to 1858. With extracts from Varnhagen's diaries, and letters of Varnhagen and others to Humboldt

Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense.: From 1827 to 1858. With extracts from Varnhagen's diaries, and letters of Varnhagen and others to Humboldt

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