180 Caroline Lucrctia HerscheL [1824. 



that 3'ou are extremely well. That I may yet often hear the 

 same, wishes your most affectionate aunt, 



CAR. HERSCHEL. 



P.S. [To Lady Herschel] 



My knowing so well to what noble purposes an experimental 

 philosopher may use his fortune, it would make me very un- 

 happy if my dear nephew was cramped in his. And if I 

 could do any good hy relinquishing my annuity I would 

 leave Hanover and live 'on my pension in the country 

 most willingly, and am only sorry that 1 have no other 

 means of showing the care and affection I have for my 

 dear nephew. But I beg no other notice may be taken 

 of all I have written than often when my nephew or your- 

 self cannot write to inform me by the hand of Miss 



B of all your joys and sorrows, that I may, though at 



tliis distance, sympathise with the same. 



If my nephew cannot be easily supplied with the Berliner 

 Jahrbuch, I beg he will let me know, for I have got 

 them by me, and can send them by the messenger in 

 January. 



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



LONDON, December, 1824. 

 DEAR AUXT, 



My mother and self received your welcome letter, 

 and so far from finding, as you seem to fear, the details you 

 enter into tedious, I assure you we found them highly in- 

 teresting. The sacrifices you have individually made for 

 3 r our family are above all praise. It would ill become me, 

 who am a rich man (I mean in that sense only in which any 

 man can truly be called rich, having enough to satisfy all 

 my moderate and rational wants), to deprive you of any, the 



