34 Humboldt's Letters. 



14. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



BERLIN, December 9, 1833. 



I ENCLOSE you, most honored friend, some words of 

 the lovely Duchess of Dessau. Anything honoring the 

 memory of our departed lady friend must be dear to 

 your heart. 



Sunday. A. v. HUMBOLDT. 



DESSAU, December 1, 1833. 



ACCEPT my best thanks for the books you sent me. 

 Each in its way interested me very much. I am sorry 

 not to have been personally acquainted with Rahel. 

 Her mind now lies so clearly before me, that I should 

 have been happy to have been acquainted with her 

 exterior appearance, that it might suggest to me the 

 intellect within. 



FKIEDEKIKE, Duchess at Anhalt. 



Yet full of admiration for R. the book of all books. 

 May I ask you, my honored friend, for Friedrich Schle- 

 gel's works, third volume ? 



