BUNSEN, Christian Karl Josias von.
Autograph letter unsigned to the publishers Longman & Co.
[London,] Carlton Terrace, 12 February 1845.
8vo bifolium (180 x 113 mm), pp. [1]; written in English; sometime folded, tear with minor loss at foot of central fold, sometime mounted and with consequent adhesions on verso of second leaf; preserved in a mid-twentieth-century Myers & Co. autograph folder (misattributing the letter to the chemist Robert Bunsen).
‘Chev[alie]r Bunsen presents his compliments to Messrs. Longman & Co. and begs to state in answer to their note of this day, that he has written the answer under the enclosed paper from Paris.’
Karl Josias von Bunsen (1791–1860), also known as Baron von Bunsen, was a German diplomatist and scholar. In 1842 he was appointed Prussian ambassador to the court of St James, a post he held for thirteen years. The present letter may relate to Bunsen’s Christianity and mankind, which was to be published by Longman & Co. in seven volumes in 1854.
