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corners among craters of volcanoes, but you know best, and 

 I hope ypu found something 



I am, 

 My dear nephew's affectionate aunt, 



C. HERSCHEL. 



MISS HERSCHEL TO J. F. W. HERSCHEL. 



Nov. 1, 1826. 

 MY DEAREST NEPHEW, 



The 1st vol. of the translation of your dear father's 

 papers is come out. I shall have it in a few days from the 

 bookbinder, and in February, I ana told, the next volume 

 will make its appearance. I wish you would inform me as 

 soon as possible if I shall send you a copy, that I may write 

 for one in time to have it ready by the end of December, 

 when the messenger leaves Hanover. It is a pity you 

 cannot have it immediately. The plates are not with the 

 work, but are to be had bound in a separate book (I suppose 

 when the whole is finished). 



I long to know that you are arrived safe and in good 

 health in England again, for by your last, dated MontpeUier, 

 Sept. 17th, I see that you had then another volcanic moun- 

 tain to visit, besides an observation to make on solar 

 radiation with your new instrument ; the very thought of 

 it puts me in a fever all over at this present moment, 

 though we have no longer to complain of heat ; so I beg 

 you will inform me that your health has not been injured, 

 and that you have not been totally disappointed in your 

 researches. 



I lead a very idle life, my sole employment consists in 

 keeping myself in good humour and not be disagreeable to 

 others. 



Groskopf tells me the translation of your father's papers 



