"YOUR last letter, so honourable for me, contained words which I should not like to misunderstand. You scarcely permit to yourself the possession of my impieties.' After my speedy decease you may deal as you please with such property. We only owe truth in this life to such persons as we deeply esteem, therefore it is due to you." Letter from Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen, 7th December, 1841. |