Humboldt's Letters. 85 



45. 



HUMBOLDT TO YARNHAQEN. 



SATTJBDAY, April llth, 1840. 



THE Crown-Prince would like very much to see that 

 interesting letter of Prince Metternich to you. Could 

 not you send it to me before half-past seven o'clock 

 to-night, my dear friend ? 



A. HT. 



In regard to the said letter, Varnhagen says in his 

 diary, under date of April 2d, 1840: " When returning 

 home, found a letter from Prince Metternich a long 

 one, under his own hand. He declares my picture of 

 the Congress of Vienna to be a perfectly faithful one, a 

 few points excepted, which ought to be corrected. He 

 himself corrects, in detail, the description of the effect 

 of the news at Vienna, that Napoleon had left Elba. 

 It is a letter of historical value." 



Under date of the 5th of the same month, Varnhagen 

 mentions again the Metternich letter. "In the after- 

 noon," he says, " Humboldt called. He had heard of 

 the letter from Wittgenstein, who had spoken of it to 



