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Antiqua
Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kapitälchen.
Berlin papers received by the City of Baltimore con-
tain the following card from Alexander Humboldt:
Suffering beneath the pressure of a still increasing
correspondence, amounting to between sixteen hun-
dred and
two thousand communications per annum,
and embracing letters
and printed pamphlets on mat-
ters with which I am wholly
unacquainted, manu-
scripts concerning which my opinion is
desired, pro-
jects of emigration and colonizing, the sending
of
models, machines and natural curiosities, requests
of
contributions to collections of autographs, offers
to
take charge of my domestic concerns, to cheer and
enliven me, &c., &c., I must again publicly
urge all
persons having my welfare at heart to exert their
in-
fluence in my behalf, that individuals in both
conti-
nents may no longer busy themselves with my
person
and make my house an intelligence office; and
that I
be allowed, in the declining state of my physical
and
mental powers, to enjoy some rest and leisure to
at-
tend to my duties. May this cry for relief, which
I
utter with much reluctance and after reflection,
not
meet an unfriendly interpretation!