CHAPTER III. 



LIFE AFTER HER BROTHER'S MARRIAGE. 



WITH the second volume of " Recollections" all 

 connected narrative and detailed relation of daily 

 events ceases, and for the ten years from 1788 to 1798 

 there is not even the journal, which, however, was 

 resumed in the latter year. All has been destroyed. 

 An event so important as her brother's marriage * is 

 only noticed as fixing the date when the " place of a 

 housekeeper " had to be resigned. Miss Herschel lived 

 from henceforth in lodgings, coming every day for her 

 work, and in all respects continuing the same labours 

 as her brother's assistant and secretary as before. But 

 it is not to be supposed that a nature so strong and 

 a heart so affectionate should accept the new state of 

 things without much and bitter suffering. To resign 

 the supreme place by her brother's side which she had 

 filled for sixteen years with such hearty devotion could 



* Dr. Herschel married Mary, only child of Mr. James Baldwin, a merchant 

 of the City of London, and widow of John Pitt, Esq., by whom she had one 

 son, who died in early youth. She was a lady of singular amiability and 

 gentleness of diameter. The jointure which she brought enabled Dr. 

 Herschel to pursue his scientific career without any anxiety about money 

 matters. 



