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" Eeligious Poetry of the Jews in Spain ;"* I wanted, 

 before I did so, to read it, and terror at finding I had, 

 on the 14th September, reached the seventy-sixth year 

 of my age, threw me so entirely into the "Kosmos" 

 that I thereby neglected even duties which were dear 

 to me. I shall personally thank Dr. Sachs, and beg 

 you, before I do so, to excuse I dare not say justify 

 me to him. 



Most gratefully yours, 

 Wednesday night. A. V. HUMBOLDT. 



The notice about Hormayr, which, however, in the 

 political part, strangely breaks off in 1808, is very 

 interesting. What a mass of works 150 volumes! 



Oil. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



Berlin, October 27th, 1845. 



I should be sorry, my dear friend, for a friend of 

 Thiers, warmly recommended to me by him, to leave 

 Berlin without having enjoyed the pleasure of seeing 

 you. M. Thomas, one of the editors of the " Eevue des 

 deux Mondes," is the author of a very important work 

 on the ancient Provincial Constitution of France, com- 

 posed from authentic records. I commend him to 

 your indulgence. Yours, 



A. v. HUMBOLDT. 

 (In great haste.) 



* Dr. Moritz Sachs, a very meritorious Jewish savant at Berlin. TR. 



