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 DUCHESS HELENE D'ORLEANS TO HUMBOLDT. 



WlXTER OP 1845. 



I HAD not the satisfaction to bid adieu to your Excel- 

 lency, and to repeat to you my thanks for your excellent 

 work ; permit me to do it now in writing, whilst I send 

 to you the lines for my beloved cousin, and receive 

 once more the expression of the most heartfelt wish to 

 greet again your Excellency, after a short interval, on 

 French soil. 



With most sincere esteem, your Excellency's affec- 

 tionate HELENE. 



ISO. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



POTSDAM, April 22d, 1846. 



IT has afforded me a great relief being permitted to 

 read before you, and while very much of the warm and 



