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put up. But I shall write again when I have packed up 

 the box, and if you still wish for relics of your dear father's 

 hand-writing, I have a great mind to part with his pocket- 

 book (to you only), which he used before we left Bath. 

 There are only a few pencil memoranda, but they show 

 that music did not only occupy his thoughts, but that timber 

 for the erection of the thirty-foot telescope of which the 

 casting of the mirror was pretty far advanced was thought 

 of. 



But now I must say a few words to your dear mother, 

 but I wish soon to hear that you have received this, and 

 also a letter I sent from here on the 14th January. I hope 

 it is not lost. 



I am not very well pleased with my English, but have no 

 time to write what I have to say over again, but this I 

 hope you will be able to understand that 



I am 

 Ever your most affectionate aunt, 



CAR. HERSCHEL. 



FROM MISS HERSCHEL TO LADY HERSCHEL. 



HAXOVEI:, March 8, 1825. 



MY DEAR LADY HERSCHEL, 



I received your letter of the 4th December, and it 

 relieved me of much anxiety I felt from a fear that the 

 subject of my long letter of November 8th might have 

 injured me in your or my nephew's opinion, and I had 

 nothing to console me in this uncertainty, but a line from 

 Mr. Goltermann that he had seen you in good health and 

 received 50 from you, which I received the 22nd Novem- 

 ber here at Hanover, and sent my thanks and the usual 

 receipt the next day. But still I remained in uncertainty, 

 till by a letter from Miss B. of 15th December, you kindly 



