My correspondence has inevitably <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />fallen into such confusion for the last 12 months, & so many of my <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />letters have been lost, that I am almost afraid to think how long <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />a time may have elapsed, since you heard from me: – much longer, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I know it is, than it ought to have been, under any circumstances, & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />especially as I have never thanked you for the distinguished place <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />you are said to have given to my name in your new Edition of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="a8407d42-d7c5-43de-807d-42d7c573de4a" corresp="#d4948b38-55fa-4d07-948b-3855fa5d072b" type="editorialNote"><hi rendition="#u">Aspects of Nature</hi></ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="d4948b38-55fa-4d07-948b-3855fa5d072b" corresp="#a8407d42-d7c5-43de-807d-42d7c573de4a" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/MU3FGUXF">Humboldt 1849a</bibl>.</note>. My copy of this work has not reached me, but <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I am well aware that I ought to be very grateful, & to feel highly hon<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />ored. I have very much to thank you for, during many years.