<space xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" dim="horizontal" />Your long & most welcome <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />letter arrived when I was <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <sic>in </sic> <corr type="deleted" /> </choice>travelling <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988">Nepal</placeName> & was not received by me <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />for many weeks after its arrival <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">here</add>. On <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />my return <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">from</del> <add place="superlinear">to</add> </subst> <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467">Darjiling</placeName> Mr. <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">Hodgson</persName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />had left the station on account of his <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />health & it was only on my joining <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />him last <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" when="1849-03" calendar="#gregorian">month</date> in the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020707 https://www.geonames.org/1282711">Terai</placeName> that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I could talk with him about the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />contents of your letter. In the first place <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />he desires me to thank you with the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />greatest warmth & sincerity for the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />kind & prompt attention you have <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">paid</del> <add place="superlinear">given to <lb />our request</add> </subst>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the long letter you have written, the great <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />compliment thus paid to us, & above all <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />for the admirable & unexceptionable <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />plan you & <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Prof.</abbr> <expan>Professor</expan> </choice> <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470">Berghaus</persName> have drawn <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />out. You cannot conceive what a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />load of trouble this has taken off our <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hands, nor what a prized memorial it <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />will <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">ever</add> be, not only to ourselves, but to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the country, for whose benefit the charts <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />are planned. That this first attempt <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to instruct the youth of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">India</placeName> in physical<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="2v" />science, & in their own tongue, should <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />be grounded on a plan of Baron Hum<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />boldt’s, gives a character to the undertaking <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that nothing else could. Believe us <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />we never <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">expected</add> you to have paid such attention <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to the subject<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & that in doing so you <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />have done us the happiest service. The <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />work shall go forth as the offspring of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Baron Humboldt<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <reg>’</reg> </choice>s matured experience, & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I am sure that it will not be felt <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />unworthy of you my kind friend, after <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />so many years of usefulness in other <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#erased">&</del> <add place="intralinear">spheres</add> </subst> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& countries to have your name so <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />prominently associated with <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">the </del> <add place="intralinear">an</add> </subst> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />undertaking which under whatever <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />difficulties must succeed in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">India</placeName>.