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amiability of which Miss Herschel experienced so many 

 proofs while she lived at Slough : 



THE PRINCESS SOPHIA MATILDA TO MISS HERSCHEL. 



MY DEAR Miss HERSCHEL, 



Your obliging attention in sending the Astronomical 

 Almanack to me I am very sensible of, and at the same time 

 that I return my best thanks for this flattering mark of your 

 recollection, I must express my regret that I am not pos- 

 sessed of more knowledge and leisure, that I might profit 

 sufficiently by your kindness in endeavouring to instruct 

 me. I was very happy to learn that you had reached your 

 native land in safety, and I sincerely form every wish that 

 your health may be long preserved to you ! 



May I request you to remember me kindly to Mr. and 

 to Miss Beckedorff, and to be assured yourself of the true 

 esteem and regard with which I remain, my dear Miss 

 Herschel, 



Yours very faithfully, 



SOPHIA MATILDA. 

 LONDON, June 16, 1823. 



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



HANOVER, June 24, 1823. 



MY DEAREST NEPHEW, 



I had intended to write you a long and very learned 

 epistle, but I am just now informed that the messenger 

 will leave Hanover within a very few hours, and I must 

 content myself with giving you the outlines of what I would 

 have said. 



I believe I have mentioned in a former letter to your 

 mother that a Professor Pfaff has announced his intention 

 of giving a translation of your father's papers. It runs in 



