Humboldt's Letters. 93 



GUIZOT TO HUMBOLDT. 



LONDON, August 24, J 840. 

 MONSIEUR LE BAEOX : 



IT was very amiable indeed in you to have thought of 

 sending me the two new volumes of your brother's works. 

 I thank you not only for this gift, in itself so very valu- 

 able, but also for your remembrance which is at least 

 equally dear to me. I hope that notwithstanding all our 

 afiairs, for they are yours as well as mine, I shall manage 

 to read something of this great work. I should like to 

 employ my time in so complete and varied a manner as 

 you occupy yours. Preserve a little of it for the ad- 

 vancement of a good and a wise policy, which though 

 it already owes you much, still needs you. 



I envy Baron von Bulow the pleasure of seeing you. 

 I regret extremely losing his society in London. Con- 

 versation genuine conversation profound, pregnant, 

 and free, is very scarce among us. His I shall miss very 

 much. I should like to go some day to see you at your 

 home, to visit your country, in which, beyond all 

 others, human intellect acts the greatest part, and to see 



