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What a relaxation!
and at the same time what an amount of useful work.’
Again, a few months later, ‘You must keep me well advised of your plans, and I, in my turn, will try so to arrange my affairs as to find myself free in the spring of 1844 for a voyage, the chief object of which will be to show my oldest son the country where he was born, and where man may develop free of shackles.
The mere anticipation of this journey is delightful to me, since I shall have you at my side, and may thus feel sure that it will make an epoch in science.’
This letter is answered from the glacier; the first part refers to the Nomenclator, in regard to which he often consulted the prince.
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