170 Caroline Lucretia Herschel. [1823, 



P.P.S. Babbage has had .1,500 granted him by Go- 

 vernment to enable him to execute his engine, which is very 

 curious. A report is strongly current of Captain Parry's 

 successful arrival at Valparaiso ; it comes in a very probable 

 form. 



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



HAXOVER, August 11, 1823. 

 MY DEAREST NEPHEW, 



I thank you most heartily for your kind care and 

 punctuality in sending my remittance, and am only sorry to 

 trouble you so often; I might have acknowledged the 

 receipt thereof by the last post, but I wished first to enable 

 myself to give the following information. Johann Wilhelrn 

 PfafF, professor, in Erlangen, is the same who intends to 

 translate your father's papers, but those only which he can 

 get a copy of. The Philosophical Transactions, I am told, 

 are not within his reach. You may depend on my sending you 

 whatever may come out as soon as it makes its appearance. 



I can easily imagine how little time you can have to spare 

 for writing to me when once you have entered on that mass 

 of your father's observations contained in his journals, c. 

 .... I think the temporary index (such as it is) will in 

 many instances be of service to you, but I wish to point out 

 here that about the year 1800 there was a change made in 

 the titles of some of the books. The first volume of mis- 

 cellaneous observations was then called Journal No. 10, &c., 

 . ... so if the index directs you to January 24th, 1797 M. 

 (for M. read J.) I think a memorandum of this will be 

 found in the cover or beginning of the index, but I am not 

 certain. 



You have truly gratified me by sending the inscription of 

 the monument,* for such subjects only are capable of inte- 



* To her brother, in Upton Church, near Slough. 



