104. HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN
Friedrich Kapp translation
Thursday, January 15th, 1846.
Mr. Milnes, and what he may have said of the King, “who showed him no personal civilities,” interest me but little; but it will afford me great joy if my earnest intercession for Prutz be at last useful to him. This miserable trifle is the only thing that I can secure in my position. I shall die, however, in the conscientious belief, that to my last moment I never abandoned one devoted to the same principles as myself. Your approbation is highly valuable to me, my dear friend!
199The “Quarterly Review” says I had a prolix style, and am never able to write one page of “vivid expression.”
With faithful attachment, yours,
A. v. Humboldt.
Please excuse, like a philosopher, the writing on this mutilated sheet. I am in such a hurry that I have mistaken the address.