200 Caroline Lucretia Herschel. [1826. 



MISS HERSCHEL TO J. F. W. HERSCHEL. 



HAKOVER, Aug. 8, 1826. 

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The long continuance of the great heat has had so very 

 bad an effect on my feeble frame ; and considering my 

 advanced age, I ought not to put off the making a sort 

 of a will, which I would set about with the greatest 

 pleasure if I had anything to leave for which you would 

 be the better. But I am sure you will not be disappointed, 

 for you remember I parted with my little property before I 

 left England (against your good advice) because I thought 



at that time I should not live a twelvemonth. 



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From the first moment I set foot on German ground, I 

 found I was alone. But I could not think of separating 

 myself from him, [her brother Dietrich] especially as his 

 health is so very precarious, that I often think he will go 

 before me. At this present moment he is in bed very ill, 

 suffering from weak nerves. But the above is all by way of 

 showing you the necessity for begging } r ou to answer to the 

 following questions. 



My sweeper I wish to leave to Miss Beckedorff, and the 

 picture of the Princess of Gloucester to her mother, for 

 the two ladies have been my guardian angels for many 

 years. 



Dr. Groskopf is to have the seven-foot reflector, though 

 I know it will only be a relic to him, but it will not be 

 destroyed or sold for an old song. My clothing and such 

 articles of furniture as I have been obliged to purchase, 

 my three nieces may divide themselves in. Your dear 

 father's publications in five volumes, B ode's and Wollaston's 

 Catalogues (full of my memorandums), and one of my 

 Indexes, shall be sent to you. Also a rough copy of the 



