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then the verb! " Occasioned 5y," &c., would perhaps 

 be better. I trust to your genius ! You will help me 

 out of this labyrinth, I am sure ! With the sincerest 

 attachment, 



Your obedient, 



A. HUMBOLDT. 







NOTE BY VARNHAGEN. I had objected to the first herein mentioned 

 title myself when I once dined at Prince August's, and Humboldt had 

 heard it from Beuth. 



5. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



BERLIN, 3d of April, 1829. 



I SHALL call and thank you and enjoy your being 

 home again, and the good effects which the exercise of 

 your new duties have everywhere had. And I will 

 implore pardon of your gifted lady, so dear to me 

 through the misfortunes that happened in my own 

 fcouly. It is never allowed to present a book to the 

 King, not even by Prince Wittgenstein. It must go the 

 usual way. But I will entreat Albrecht very, very fer- 

 vently.* I am quite exhausted and will be off in a week. 



Friday. A. HT. 



* It was a book of Ranke (the Historian). 



