134 Caroline Lucre tia Herschel. [1822. 



choly hours I spent with the dearest and best of brothers. 

 But if I was to leave off making memorandums of such 

 events as either affect or are interesting to me, I should 

 feel like what I am, viz., a person that has nothing more to 

 do in this world. 



" But to regain the thread of my narration, it is necessary 

 to take notice of the vacancy between the present date and 

 the ending of the year 1821, and the only way in which I 

 can possibly nil up this vacancy must be to take a few dates 

 with memorandums marked in my almanac and account 

 books for the year 1822, without making any comments on 

 what my feelings and situation must have been throughout 

 that whole interval. 



" By some letters I wrote during the first four months of 

 1822 to my brother Alex r . here at Hanover, I see that I was 

 employed in copying from the Philosophical Transactions 

 the first twelve papers of my brother's publications. The 

 time required for this purpose I could only obtain by 

 making use of . most of the hours which are generally 

 allotted to rest, as during the day my time was spent in 

 endeavours to support my dear brother in his painful 

 decline. And besides, the hope that we might continue yet 

 u little longer together began to forsake me, for my own 

 health and spirits were in that state that I was in daily 

 expectation of going before.* Therefore each moment of 

 separation from my dear brother I spent in endeavours to 

 arrange my affairs so that my nephew, J. Herschel, as the 

 executor of my will, might have as little trouble as possible. 



* Although Miss Herschel was endowed by nature with a line healthy con- 

 stitution, she suffered much in various ways during the last twenty-five years 

 of her life ; and there is little doubt that her health was injured, to a consi- 

 derable extent, by the excessive fatigue and serious accidents to which she was 

 exposed in her earlier days, when she often denied herself rest that was impe- 

 ratively needed, in order to l>e at hand when her brother required her 



