The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

The Letters of Humboldt

"The Letters of Humboldt." New-York Saturday Press. (1860-5-12).
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
literary criticism
Abstract

A book of selected letters between Alexander Von Humboldt and his closest friend is called pretty but otherwise lacking substance as the correspondence gravitates toward gossip.