HUMBOLDT Wilhelm von - ALS 1818 to a gentleman in London Category_Travel

HUMBOLDT Wilhelm von - ALS 1818 to a gentleman in London Category_TravelWilhelm von HUMBOLDT (1767 1835) Autograph Letter Signed (Humboldt) to an unidentified gentleman, regretting that his correspondent had been unable to come to see him the previous day. 1 page 8vo in French with integral blank leaf, n. p. [London], 8 October 1818. Trans: I very much regretted, my dear Sir, not having the pleasure of seeing you here yesterday, & I learned with great regret that it was an indisposition which deprived me. I flatter myself

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he announced that it would be his last opera

& a formal invitation will be sent

The letter is directed at the bottom as being sent “by Mrs

She must have slid down the banister

It is seldom that a letter appears giving such a catalogue of operas which are seldom

& I learned with great regret that it was an indisposition which deprived me

so I cannot give an opinion about him as I do not know about his progress

and now a particularly quarrelsome MP

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