In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.
R. CRAIGHEAD,
Printer, Stereotyper, and Electrotyper,
Carlton Building,
_81, 83, and 85 Centre Street_.
“Your last favor doing me so much honor contains words about which I
wish to prevent every mistake. ‘You are afraid to confess yourself the
exclusive owner of my impieties.’ You may freely dispose of this sort of
property after my not far distant departure from life. Truth is due to
those only whom we deeply esteem—to you therefore.”
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN.
_Letter of December 7th, 1841._