58 Caroline Liter ctia Her sc he I. [1786. 



" litigious woman," who refused to be bound to reason- 

 able terms, and at length, on the 3rd of April, 1786, 

 the house and garden at SLOUGH were taken, and all the 

 apparatus and machinery immediately removed there. 



.... And here I must remember that among all this 

 hurrying business, every moment after daylight was allotted 

 to observing. The last night at Clay Hall was spent in 

 sweeping till daylight, and by the next evening the telescope 



stood ready for observation at Slough A workman for 



the brass and optical parts was engaged, and two smiths 

 were at work throughout the summer on different parts for 

 the forty-foot telescope, and a whole troop of labourers were 

 engaged in grinding the iron tools to a proper shape for the 

 mirror to be ground on (the polishing and grinding by 

 machines was not begun till about the end of 1788). These 

 heavy articles were cast in town, and caused my brother fre- 

 quent journeys to London, they were brought by water as 



for as Windsor At Slough no steady out-of-door 



workman for the sweeping handle could be met with, and a 

 man-servant was engaged as soon as one could be found fit 

 for the purpose. Meanwhile Campion assisted, but many 

 memorandums were put down: " Lost a neb. by the blunder 

 of the person at the handle." If it had not been sometimes 

 for the intervention of a cloudy or moonlight night, I know 

 not when my brother (or I either), should have got any 

 sleep ; for with the morning came also his workpeople, of 

 whom there were no less than between thirty and forty at 

 work for upwards of three months together, some employed 

 in felling and rooting out trees, some digging and pre- 

 paring the ground for the bricklayers who were laying the 

 foundation for the telescope, and the carpenter hi Slough, 

 with all his men. The smith, meanwhile, was converting a 



