88.
HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN.
_August 31st, 1844._
I trust that the following autographs will prove welcome to you:—(A)
Bettina under the indictment; (B) two copies of my very brief speech;
(C) two letters of Spontini, with strange allusions to Prince
Wittgenstein, Count Redern, full of hatred against Meyerbeer, together
with my earnest reply to it; (D) a letter of Gay-Lussac, when he was so
dangerously injured by an explosion; (E) a very humane letter of the
Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Always respectfully yours,
A. V. HUMBOLDT.