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annexed parts. Some sentences were really confused. 

 You will permit me to call one of these days, and thank 

 you personally. I will then show you the emendations 

 at the end of the discourse. How happy I would have 

 been to have laid some of these travels before her, the 

 dear departed one ! 



Yours gratefully, 



A. v. HUMBOLDT. 



1 would there were in Germany as excellent a book 

 of synonyms as the inclosed one, which, I am sure, you 

 did not see before now. Abbe Delisle has advised me 

 to use it, and indeed it spares much time ; if a similar 

 word is wanted, one finds it at once. I shall come and 

 take the book back. 



18. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



BERLIN, Sunday, 6 o'clock A.M., 



April 5th, 1855. 



You, my dearest Yarnhagen, who are not afraid 

 of grief, but who trace its phases through the depths 

 of sentiment, you should receive at this sorrowful 

 time a few words expressing the love which both 



