Magneticum Naturae Regnum

You sent me a letter adorned with such energy of words, and with so many and such great signs of benevolence, that I know not how, by that hidden and sagacious incitement of talent, character, and studies, a sympathetic connection—a bridesmaid, as it were—has finally come about, such that you have placed me, even from the most remote corner of the American world, present before you, drawn by that potent magnetism of homeotropism. I marveled, and I myself [marveled at] the polymathy and cultivation of all the liberal arts in YOU, a native of the New World; indeed, in those foreign regions of America and parts of the heavens unknown to us.