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very carefully kept to myself, as I wished to be useful to iny 

 brother as long as possibly I could 



Feb. 7th. I was obliged to move to a small cottage in 

 Slough, at a considerable distance from my brother. I 

 began to move, and slept there for the first night, the 22nd. 



April 1st. My brother went to Bath to see his brother and 

 Sir William Watson. His cough still very bad, and the 

 12th, when he came home, we learned that he had been 

 taken very ill on the road and suffered much when at Bath. 

 It was not till many weeks after, when the warm weather 

 came on, that he felt relieved. A few days after his return 

 from Bath, we received notice by a message from the Queen of 

 the Duchess of Oldenburg's intention of coining to see my 

 brother's instruments. Everything was put in readiness for 

 either a morning or evening visit, but the weather being 

 very bad, the \isit was put off till the arrival of the 

 Emperor. 



May 4th. I went to be with my brother. Mrs. H. and Miss 

 B. went to meet my nephew in town, who was keeping a 

 term in the Temple, where he had commenced to be a 



student for the law in February. 



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June Wth. My brother, being about this time engaged 

 with re-polishing the forty-foot mirror, it required some time 

 to restore order in his rooms before any strangers could be 

 shown into them, and I again was assisting him to prepare 

 for the reception of the Emperor Alexander and the Duchess 

 of Oldenburg, &c., as they were at Windsor for Ascot Races. 

 But we might have saved ourselves the trouble, for they 

 were sufficiently harassed with public sights and festivities. 



Sept. 13i/i. During the time I was with my brother I saw 

 among the visitors, &c., General P., who informed us of 

 General Komarzewsky's death, and on my expressing a. 



