26 Caroline Lucretia Herschel. [1772. 



with her mother, although the latter had given her 

 consent to the change. 



" In this manner" [making prospective clothes for them] 

 " I tried to still the compunction I felt at leaving relatives 

 who, I feared, would lose some of their comforts by my 

 desertion, and nothing but the belief of returning to them 

 full of knowledge and accomplishments could have sup- 

 ported me in the parting moment, which was much em- 

 bittered by the absence of my brother Jacob, who was 

 with the Court which attended on the Queen of Denmark 

 at the Gorde, where my brother Dietrich had also been for 

 some time, and but just returned when my brother William, 

 for whose safety we had for several weeks been under no 

 small apprehension, at last quite unexpectedly arrived. . . . 

 His stay at Hanover could at the utmost not be prolonged 

 above a fortnight. . . . My mother had consented 

 to my going with him, and the anguish at my leaving her 

 was somewhat alleviated by my brother settling a small 

 annuity on her, by which she would be enabled to keep an 

 attendant to supply my place." They all went over to 

 Coppenbriigge "to see my sister I to take leave of her; 

 the remaining time was wasted in an unsatisfactory 

 correspondence : the letters from my brother Jacob ex- 

 pressed nothing but regret and impatience at being thus 

 disappointed, and, without being able to effect a meeting, 

 I was obliged to go without receiving the consent of my 



eldest brother to my going 



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" But I will not attempt to describe my feelings when 

 the parting moment arrived, and I left my dear mother 

 and most dear Dietrich on Sunday, August 16th, 1772, at 

 the Posthouse, and after travelling for six days and nights 

 on an open (in those days very inconvenient) Postwagen, 



