162 Caroline Lucretia HerschcL [1823. 



glass doors made, so that I cnn see my books. Opposite 

 this, on a sofa, 1 am seated, with a sofa-table and my new 

 writing-desk before me, but what good I shall do there the 

 future must tell. 



Many more of such like transactions I was going to com- 

 municate to you, but I am interrupted by the carpenter (our 

 Andrews), who is come to do some jobs for me, so for this 

 once you will be released from my nonsense. 



But one thing I must yet add, which is that you will 

 accept my heartfelt wishes for your health, happiness, and 

 prosperity throughout the coming year and for many more 

 hereafter, in which my brother and sister are joining most 

 sincerely, to yourself and Lady Herschel, and believe me, 

 my dear nephew, 



Ever your most affectionate aunt, 



CAR. HERSCHEL. 



FROM MISS HERSCHEL TO J. F. W. HERSCHEL, ESQ. 



HANOVKK, Feb. 27, 1823. 

 MY DEAREST NEPHEW, 



I take the earliest opportunity I have to acquaint you 

 with having received a letter from Mr. H. Goltermann, accom- 

 panied with a draft for 2 4s. Gd., which is already received 

 and safely deposited in my writing-desk. But the infor- 

 mation that he had had the pleasure of seeing you in good 

 health afforded me the greatest satisfaction, and he further 

 promised me to forward the parcel to you in Downing 

 Street, which was particularly pleasing to me, as I wished 

 to avoid the sending backward and forward by blundering 

 coachmen. 



On the 5th of this month I received your letter without 

 date, but conclude it was written about the same time with 

 those of your dear mother and cousin Mary, dated the 9th 

 and fifteenth of January. I delayed answering them (and 



