106 Caroline Lucretia Herschel. [isoo. 



Sept. 10th. I received a box from Slough. My brother 

 was come home, and Alex, went to assist in re-polishing the 

 forty-foot mirror, and left Bath Sept. 15 ; he returned 



Oct. 2nd. Some of my time during his absence I spent at 

 his house on Margaret's Hill to clean and repair his furni- 

 ture, and making his habitation comfortable against his return. 



Oct. 29/. I received notice that in about a fortnight I 

 should be wanted at Slough. 



FROM DR. HERSCHEL IN LONDON TO CAROLINE HERSCHEL 

 AT BATH. 



LONDON, Nov. 7, 1800. 

 DEAR SISTER, 



Last night my paper on which I have been so long at 

 work was read at the society. I came to London to bring 

 it, and have been so hurried as not to be able to look out 

 any work for you, but shall now be at liberty to do some- 

 thing of that kind. My things here are in considerable dis- 

 order, and in a short time Mrs. Herschel and myself wish to 

 come for a little time to Bath, then we will let you know if 

 it's soon, that you may come here on a visit before we go, 

 that I may point out to you the work that is most necessary 

 to be done in our short absence. I thought it best to give 

 you this early notice, because, though we have not fixed upon 

 the time, it will be towards the latter end of this month that 

 we mean to come for perhaps a fortnight or three weeks, 

 according to the weather ; for, if that should be fine we shall 

 return, that I may have a few sweeps before you go back to 

 Bath. Miss Baldwin is at Slough, and stays while we are 

 away, so that you will have company, and the chaise will 

 also be left, so that you can pay visits at Windsor, and show 

 yourself to all your friends and ours. 



My last paper consisted of eighty pages, so that you will 

 have a piece of work to gather it together out of the scraps 

 I leave. Some part of it was brought together in the 



