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for fear it might have had any influence on the direction of 

 your intended tour. But now all will be well, and I shall 

 only say that we are counting the days and hours until we 

 shall have the happiness 'of seeing you, and you will, on 

 entering Hanover, have only to direct your postilion to the 

 Markt Strasse, No. 453, where the arms of my brother and 

 sister, as well as mine, are longing to receive you, and till 

 then 



Believe me, my dearest nephew, 



Your faithful and aifectionate aunt, 



CAR. HERSCHEL. 



P.S. I beg my respects to . . Blumenbach, and I shall 

 ever remember with many thanks the visit with which he 

 honoured me when last at Hanover. 



FROM MISS HERSCHEL TO LADY HERSCHEL. 



HANOVER, Oct. 14, 1824. 

 MY DEAR LADY HEKSCHEL, 



My dear nephew has now been gone a week, and I fol- 

 low him in idea every inch he is moving farther from us, and 

 think he must now be near the water. I am at this moment 

 in the greatest panic imaginable, for we have had all the 

 week much rain, and now it blows a perfect hurricane. I 

 shall not send this till I have heard from you that the dear 

 traveller is safely at home, for it would be cruel to augment 

 your anxiety, which I know you are feeling till you see him 

 again. 



[Here follows a long history of the younger members of 

 the Griesbach family, with details of the events of seventy 

 years before.] 



.... I have not yet done, my dear Lady Herschel, and 

 shall not be easy till I have given some little account of my 

 brother's [Dietrich's] family, merely for yours and my dear 



