Humboldt's Letters. 175 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



August 31**, 1844. 



I TRUST that the following autographs will prove wel 

 come to you : (A) Bettina under the indictment ; (B) 

 two copies of my very brief speech ; (C) two letters of 

 Spontini, with strange allusions to PrinceWittgenstein, 

 Count Redern, full of hatred against Meyerbeer, toge- 

 ther with my earnest reply to it ; (D) a letter of Gay- 

 Lussac, when he was so dangerously injured by an 

 explosion ; (E) a very humane letter of the Grand Duke 



of Tuscany. 



Always respectfully yours, 



A. v. HUMBOLDT. 



UTUBDA.Y NIGHT. 



LEOPOLD, GRAND-DUKE OF TUSCANY, TO HUMBOLDT. 



FLORENCE, July 20th, 1844. 

 DEAREST COUNT : 



THE Professor of Botany, Philip Parlatore, is about to 



