HUMBOLDT'S LETTERS, 



i. 



HtJMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



Berlin, 25th September, 1827. 



ALLOW me, my dear friend, to offer you the. best copy 

 of my Paper* I have left. The last lines will make 

 you more indulgent towards the rest. 



Tuesday. A. V. HlJMBOLDT. 



II. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



JBerlin, 1st November, 1827. 



You once said something to encourage me in my 

 attempts at giving a vivid and true delineation of Nature 

 (i.e., one in strictest accordance with the results of 

 observation). That your words have left an agreeable 

 impression on my mind, you may perceive by the 

 accompanying slight expression of my gratitude, f I 

 have almost entirely remodelled the " Explanations," 



* " On the principal Causes of the Variation of the Temperature of the 

 Earth's Surface." 



f A copy of "Aspects of Nature" (Ansichten der Natur). In the Third 

 Edition, The Rhodian Genius, vol. ii., pp. 297 308. TR. 



B 



