266 Humboldt's Letters. 



HUMBOLDT TO YARNHAGEK. 



BERLIN, January 28*A, 1852. 



HERE is my Cosmic present, my dear friend ! I 

 choose not to bring it myself lest it should seem that I 

 dare not come without it. Cast a look at p. 1 25, 

 Mars p. 511, and the concluding passage p. 625 631. 



I may call to-morrow, Thursday, at one o'clock, may 

 I not ? I shall be sure to come. 



With the old attachment, which will never grow cold, 



A. v. HUMBOLDT. 



WEDNESDAY. 



With two yellow pamphlets, to his friend of many 

 years, Varnhagen von Ense, with old admiration and 

 attachment. The author. 



On the 29th January, 1852, Varnhagen's journal reads 

 as follows: "Humboldt came at one o'clock, wonder- 

 fully robust for his time of life ! Speaks with indignant 

 scorn of the coup &etat in France, the undisguised out- 

 rage, the arbitrary banishments, and particularly the 

 robbery of the estates of the Orleans family. The King 



