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May your Excellency receive with kind approval 

 the modest expression of my most fervent wishes ! 

 In truest admiration and grateful devotion, 



Your Excellency's most obedient 



VAKNHAGEN VON ENSE. 



CLXXIX. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



Berlin, 22nd September, 1 856. 



The Grand Duke of Weimar, who has just left 

 me, charges me to beg you earnestly, my honoured 

 friend, to receive him to-morrow (Tuesday) between 

 nine and eleven o'clock. He is absolutely bent on 

 calling upon you. 



Yours faithfully, 

 A. v. HUMBOLDT. 



CLXXX. 



HUMBOLDT TO VAENHAGEN. 



Berlin, 23rd September, 1856. 



Cher et introuvable ami ! How the Improbable can 

 become the True ! How is it that Royal footmen and 

 royal coachmen were unable to find you out, and 

 looked in vain in the prosaic " Directory " for your 

 address ? This address I send at once to the Grand 

 Duke, who has the vexation of feeling he has 

 made you, dear friend, await him in vain. May 

 he be more fortunate in his next attempt ! The 

 inclosed is a Berlin curiosum for your archives. 



Faithfully yours, 



Tuesday, two o'clock. A. V. HUMBOLDT. 



