An Original Letter Written and Signed by Ernest de Bunsen. Letter dated 1857. The letter to a friend discusses in detail the lost travel journals of a Dr Richardson which were published after his death by Dr Barth. Part of the travel journals were published in 1853 and the remaining journals would be published soon. He also discusses the possibility of the death of his friend the famous astronomer Mr Eduard Vogel during his travels and exploration in the Upper Nile where no Europeans had set foot. The unfounded reports are still to be confirmed but he suspects the worse. Ernst Christian Ludwig von Bunsen or Ernest de Bunsen 1819-1903 in London was an Anglo-German writer whose speculative works proposing common origins of Buddhism, Essene Judaism and Christianity. He was father of Maurice de Bunsen and grandfather of Mary de Bunsen, World War Two Air Transport Auxiliary pilot and author. Size is 180mm x 115mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases.