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better together I will write more. Mamma is perfectly well 

 and looks well. Jacob looks a little older, but not nearly so 

 much as I expected. In Sophy [Mrs. Griesbach] there is 

 hardly any change, but a few white hairs on her head. 

 John [Dietrich] is just the same as before, his little boy 

 seems to be a charming creature. Farewell, dear Lina. I 

 hope we shall see you again in a few weeks. I must finish 

 for Alexander to write. Adieu once more. 



FROM W. HERSCHEL TO CAROLINE HERSCHEL. 



[August, 1786.] 

 DEAR LINA, 



We are still in Hanover, and find it a most agree- 

 able place. I have been in Gottingen, where Jacob went 

 along with me, and the King's telescope arrived there in 

 perfect order. The Society of Gottingen have elected me 

 a member. We long very much to hear from you, as we 

 have never had a letter yet. This is the fourth we have 

 sent you, and we hope you received the former ones. This 

 day fortnight we have fixed for our setting out from this 

 place, and be assured that we shall be happy to see old 

 England again, though old Germany is no bad place. 

 Yesterdaj^ and the day before I have seen the Bishop of 

 Osnaburgh and the Prince Edward. If an inquiry should 

 be made about our return, you may say (I hope with truth) 

 that we shall be back by about the 24th of August. Adieu, 

 Lina. 



i. I registered some sweeps in present time and Pole 

 distance. Prince Resonico came with Dr. Shepherd to see 

 the instruments. I swept from ten till one. 



I. wrote part of Flamsteed's Catalogue in the 

 clear. It was a stormy night, we could not go to bed. 



