Smithsonian Report, 1885, Part II. — Donaldsou, Catlin Indian Gallery. 



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FACSIMILE OF A. LETTER FROil BARON VON HUMBOLDT TO MR. CATLIN, 



POTSDAM, 1885. 



Translated by Dr. Charles Ran. . 



It will afford me a very lively pleasure to see Mr. Catlin again after so long an ab- 

 sence, and to profit by his spirited accounts of the new tribes of sava<>;e8 who have 

 lately been the objects of his observations. I regret not being free to-day and to- 

 morrow, Monday, as I have to be in the country with my family. If you were free 

 the day after to-morrow, Tuesday, between 1 and 2 o'clock, I would have the honor, 

 my dear sir, to receive you at Potsdam in the city palace. I beg you to accept the 

 renewed expression of my sentiments of high regard arising from cherished reineni- 

 brauces. 



A. v. HUMBOLDT, 

 At I'otsdam, iSunday, Sejjt. 2, 1855. 



