injection from double dual to finite-dimensional vector space (Note: I'm using the word "natural" to mean "without the need to choose a basis." I'm aware that there is a precise category-theoretic meaning of this word, but I don't have great intuition for it yet and am hoping, perhaps naively, it's not necessary to understand the following.)
There exists a natural injection $V\rightarrow (V^{*})^{*}$ defined by sending $v\in V$ to a functional $\mu_{v}$ on $V^{*}$ such that $\mu_{v}(f)=f(v)$ for all $f\in V^{*}$. When $V$ is finite dimensional, this map is an isomorphism by comparing dimensions, so there is also an injection $(V^{*})^{*}\rightarrow V$. Is there a "natural" (again, in this context I understand this to mean basis-free) way to write down this injection, other than as simply the reverse of the first one?

For the sake of having an answer: no. Any good definition of "natural" would imply that this map also existed for infinite-dimensional vector spaces, which it doesn't. You shouldn't be able to do any better than "the inverse, when it exists, of the natural map $V \to (V^{\ast})^{\ast}$." 
