62 Caroline Lncrctia HersckeL [1786. 



iny brother to whom I could apply for information the moment 

 a doubt occurred, never returned again, and often have I 

 been racking my poor brains through a day and a night to 

 very little purpose. I found it necessary to continue my 

 memoranda of " work done " to the last day I had the care 

 of my brother's MS. papers. But I had rather copy a few 

 days more, as they contain the discovery of my first comet, 

 and will serve also to show that I attempted to register all 

 discovered nebulae, after a precept my brother had left me, 

 as this was necessary for revising the MS. of the catalogue of 

 the first thousand nebulae, which he expected at his return 

 to find ready for correction from the printers. 



22;i(Z. I calculated all the day for Flamsteed's Cata- 

 logue. Lord Mulgrave called this evening 



%Srd. Received letters from Hanover. Finished cal- 

 culating for Flamsteed's Catalogue. 



The two following short letters were carefully 

 preserved, and, though they contain nothing of im- 

 portance, they are of interest as being of the very 

 few from the same pen which are not on scientific 

 subjects. 



FROM W. HERSCHEL TO CAROLINE HERSCHEL. 



HANOVER, Friday, July 14, 1786. 

 DEAR SISTER, 



This morning we arrived safely at Hanover. We are 

 a little tired, but perfectly well in health. We travelled 

 extra post all the way through very bad roads. The post 

 is going out in a very little time, so that I write in a hurry 

 that you might hear from us so much sooner. After a night 

 or two of sleep here (by way of recovery) I shall go on 

 to Gottingen ; but when I have collected my thoughts 



