Alexander von HUMBOLDT (1769-1859). 8 L.A.S.,... - Lot 320 - Ader

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Alexander von HUMBOLDT (1769-1859). 8 L.A.S.,... - Lot 320 - Ader
Alexander von HUMBOLDT (1769-1859). 8 L.A.S., [Paris ca. 1835-1840]; 10 pages mostly in-8, one envelope, 2 addresses (one letter a little crumpled). Beautiful correspondence to his friend and banker Auguste Léo. [Auguste Léo (1793-1859) was the Paris correspondent of the Berlin banker Mendelssohn]. - Friday [1835?]. "In the turmoil of Sunday's departure I beg you, dear friend, to arrange my small finances by drawing on Mr. Jos. Mendelssohn". It is necessary to settle the account with Mr. Weishirch and to send him by the bearer "the sum of 1,500 francs in 3 bills", who has the order to "change them in part into gold this morning". It is necessary to pay also "a young Naturalist Mr Jacquemin" (300 F) the geographer Tardieu (120 F). "Please also write me if, as I would like, I could take one of the 500 F bills with me to Frankfurt without great loss to exchange them there. I think so and it is more convenient. [...] The only thing left is the cabriolet which will be available after my departure and which you will pay for separately in Berlin. My enormous cold has subsided a lot. However, there is something of the Renaissance about it, for I had to see the cold rooms of Baroness Salomon where there is Leo X on Charles Magne. I am very sorry not to be able to present myself at the home of a kind and spiritual artist, your nephew [Henri Lehmann]"... - [October 1838] "I came back safe and sound from Cherbourg, I had dinner yesterday at Mr. Molé's who feels very relieved about the outcome of the Swiss affairs, I also went in the evening to the Tuileries where people are also happy and I am resuming my boring impressions. I will soon go to see you, my excellent friend, and inquire personally about the health of the amiable Madame Léo. Dare I ask you during the day for the sum of one thousand francs on my behalf. I must undoubtedly give you a receipt for 2000 francs because of the reimbursement in Berlin"... - November 26, 1838. "Would I dare to ask you, my dearest friend, to give the bearer, my hunter Seiffert, for my account, the sum of 1,000 francs. He will also present Mr. Ernst Engineer of Physics instruments with a small note from my hand for 150 francs". He makes a summary of the sums paid to him by Leo since his arrival in Paris, that is to say 4 650 F. At the same time, have the grace to write to me if I am not mistaken in the total sum of what I have received through your kindness since my arrival in Paris. I ... (with today's .1000f f) 4,650 Francs. "I hope that you will draw for our friend Mr. Mendelssohn as I importune you here. I had given him 9,100 Fr. I almost seem to be putting my finances in order. I have spoken to Mr. Delessert (Benjamin) and to Mr. Molé* for help from the Chambers. I found them very well disposed to you, especially the first in a more explicit way and spreading the matter as a duty of national honor. .... - Friday [1840?]. "In my little hotel there is an ingenious and very estimable man, Mr. Lohba, Swiss, who has taken out a patent in England and Vienna for an instrument for measuring capacity and surface area, which is said to be of great use to paper mills that want to have sheets of the same size and weight. Mr. Loba would like to take a patent under the supervision of our tyrant Beuth without going to Berlin himself. Would you be so kind to me, my dear friend, as to sacrifice a few moments to Mr. Loba and give him some advice. I assume that you know our forms of patent legislation. I am still under the spell of the beautiful and solid talent of Mr. Lehmann. His person can increase this charm"... - Thursday [October 1841 ?]. "I am so close to my sad departure that I will take advantage of the kind permission repeated by Madame Leo in the letter that accompanied the true journey of the Blind Man. I ask you in grace, my excellent friend, to go to dinner at your place Saturday after tomorrow [...], if it does not bother you too much. Best wishes! I leave on Nov. 2 to find Mr. de Bülow and his family in Frankfurt. The astronomer Wilhelm Beer-Madler already writes me full of bitterness and mockery on behalf of Felix [Mendelssohn], whom the King has forced to compose the chorus for a Greek tragedy (Sophocles' Antigone) which the Monarch has had the whim to have translated by Tieg [Tieck] and which is to be performed and sung at Court. The astronomer suggests that since Antigone is not Lutheran, or at least not very Lutheran, Felix will be soporific. Understand that the letter is not from Meyerbeer, an Italian abbot who is much more reserved"... - Monday [27 January 1843]. "I am very guilty, my dear and excellent friend, not only for having left your brilliant and pleasant society so early yesterday but for having been deceived by my memory. After having consulted my gastronomic archives, I discover that for the past 8 days I have been engaged for Thursday, Feb. 2, with the Minister of
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