"Baron Alexander von Humboldt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to the Georgetown convent where she became a nun, and was known until the day of her death in 1890 as "Sister Angela." Baron von Gerolt was an intellectual man and, prior to his career in the United States, his name was much associated with Baron Alexander von Humboldt; but as neither he nor Madame von Gerolt were proficient English scholars when they first arrived they naturally depended upon others for instruction. I can vouch for the truth of the statement that upon one occasion they were advised ...
— As I Remember - Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century • Marian Gouverneur |
