176 Caroline Lucretia Herschel. [1824. 



Detmerings and Haussmann, with whom it will be a great 

 pleasure to me to renew my acquaintance. You have heard, 

 I daresay, through my mother, of our poor friend, Miss 

 Deluc's death. Mrs. Beckedorff will have heen much 

 grieved at it. 



I hope you have not forgotten your English, as I find 

 myself not quite so fluent in this language as I expected. 

 In fact, since leaving Italy, I have so begarbled my German 

 with Italian that it is unintelligible both to myself and to 

 everyone that hears it; and what is very perverse, that 

 though when in Italy I could hardly talk Italian fit to be 

 heard, I can now talk nothing else, and whenever I want a 

 German word, pop comes the Italian one in its place. I 

 made the waiter to-day stare (he being a Frenchman) by 

 calling to him, "Wollen Sie avere la bonta den acete zu 



apportaren ! " But this, I hope, will soon wear off. 



# # * * # 



I remain, dear aunt, 



Your affectionate nephew, 

 J. F. W. H. 



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



HANOVER, Sept. 25, 1824. 



MY DEAREST NEPHEW, 



I hardly know how to thank you sufficiently for your 

 valuable letters, especially for the one dated the 17th of this 

 month, as I am now at last assured that my eyes shall once 

 more behold the continuation of your dear father. For the 

 remaining days of my life can only by a few hours' conver- 

 sation with you be made tolerable, by affording me your 

 direction how to finish a general catalogue of the 2,500 

 nebulae, &c., which would have otherwise caused us both & 

 tedious and vexatious correspondence in the future. 



I anxiously forbore to express my wishes for seeing you, 



