1G6 Caroline Lucretia Herschel. [1S23. 



my head that this professor is but a Jackanapes,* who will 

 spoil the broth* and I wished he would not meddle with 

 what he cannot understand. But I thought it but right to 

 inform you of what is come to my knowledge, particularly 

 as I was told it had been announced again that the transla- 

 tion would appear with corrections and explanations. Dr. 

 Luthmer (in the " Ast. Jahrbuch" for this year you may 

 see a paper by this gentleman) told me since there were two 

 professors of that name (brothers), one an astrologer, and if 

 it was the latter he would make nonsense of it. 



Miss Baldwin mentioned you were at Cambridge on 

 the business of having your father's papers printed- 

 I think it could not be amiss if something of your 

 intention could be mentioned in the Edinburgh Quarterly 

 Review, which appears here at Hanover, and of course 

 throughout Germany, that it may be known that your 

 father's labours are in yours and of course in the most able 

 hands to make remarks on them. I only wish to draw your 

 attention this way, but say nothing. 



I have mentioned it over and over again that I was so 

 unlucky as to lose the paper on my journey you entrusted 

 to my care for Prof. Gauss. If you have another copy to 

 spare give it to Mr. Goltermann for the return of the mes- 

 senger ; for he has heard of your good intention, and 

 laments my negligence ; I shall be introduced to him 

 shortly, when he comes through Hanover again, where he 

 passed through about a fortnight ago on a journey of obser- 

 vation, tending to establish some new discovery of his own,, 

 of which we are soon to know more. The theodolite has 

 something to do with it ; so much I snapt up in a company 

 of learned ladies who, within these last two months, have 

 taken me into their circle. But I am imitating Robinson 



* These words had apparently to be sought for in the dictionary, as they 

 are inserted in pencil in blank spaces left for the purpose. 



