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general Index to your father's observations, and several 

 articles of that sort with memorandums taken from what I 

 have called a Day-book, which at leisure you may look over 

 and afterwards consign to the flames, for I cannot take it 

 in my heart to do it myself. 



The observations on double stars by you and Mr. South 

 (so handsomely bound) and the volume sent last, by South, 

 shall I send them to you ? else I leave them to the Duke 

 of Cambridge ! answer required. 



Taylor's tables, will they be of use to you for your godson 

 Babbage ? else they must be only an ornament to Gros- 

 kopf 's library ! answer required. 



I am impatient to have your answer to this stuff, which 



I am almost ashamed to trouble you with. 



***** 



My next shall be of a more agreeable subject, and I have 

 only to say, 



I am, 



Your most affectionate aunt, 



C. HEESCHEL. 



FROM J. F. W. HEKSCHEL TO MISS HEESCHEL. 



MONTPELLIER, Sept. 17, 1826. 



DEAR AUNT, 



You will think me a strange gad-about, but my last, 

 if you have got it, will have prepared you to expect a letter 

 from either the north or south of Europe from me, in short 

 from any country except England. I was then not decided 

 whether to go to Norway or the south of France, but here 

 I am at last, and having a letter-writing day before me 

 and yours of the 8th August in my portfolio, I cannot do 

 better than to answer it. 



With regard to the dispositions you mention in your 

 letter, and respecting which you express a wish for my 



