164 Caroline Lucretia Hcrschel. [1828. 



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



HANOVER, April 14, 1823. 

 MY DEAREST NEPHEW, 



I hasten to send this sheet, which is but this moment 

 come to hand, and the post within an hour of leaving Han- 

 over. I begin to fear that I shall not hear from you till 

 you send me an acknowledgment of having received the 

 certificate, which we are not able to obtain till after the 

 10th of April and 10th of October, but January and July 

 it is the 5th. I assure you I would rather go without the 

 money than be so long without hearing from you, or have a 

 line to express your pleasure for the present I offered you 

 and Mr. Babbage by sending the books by the Christmas 

 messenger, of which I, at this moment, have no information 

 that they have been delivered. By the Easter messenger 

 I have sent some mettwurst [a Hanoverian delicacy], which 

 I hope you and your dear mother will find good, but when 

 they are once cut they must be eaten soon, else they are 



dry and lose all their flavour. 



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The Germans are very busy about the fame of your dear 

 father; there does not pass a month but something 

 appears in print, and Dr. Groskopf saw in den gelehrten 

 7eitungen that Professor Pfaff had translated all your dear 

 father's papers from the Phil. Trans, into German, and 

 which will be published in Dresden. I wish he had left it 

 for some good astronomer to do the same. Pray let me 

 know how you and your dear mother are in health ; I am 

 not well, but have a severe cold at present, but am always 

 and still your affectionate aunt, 



CAR. HERSCHEL. 



The following letter from the Princess Sophia of 

 Gloucester is a pleasing memorial of the kindness and 



