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causes a great sensation among the learned here in 



Hanover. 



***** 



Believe me, dearest nephew, 



Yours, most affectionately, 



C. HERSCHEL. 



MISS HERSCHEL TO J. F. W. HERSCHEL. 



Dec. 5, 1826. 



MY DEAREST NEPHEW, 



I received your letter of the 18th November, the day 

 before yesterday, therefore fifteen days old, which is pretty 

 well considering the time of year. I hope this will reach 

 you soon, for I have longed very much to give you an 

 account of the last parcel of papers you sent, Avhich I only 

 deferred till I had received an account of your safe arrival 

 in England by your own hands. 



The parcel which you gave to Mr. Goltermann on the 

 18th August arrived here by the messenger on the 3rd 

 November, and five days after (which it took me to dry the 

 copies, for the messenger had met with storm and accidents 

 at sea, and some of his boxes had been under water), viz., 

 the 18th Nov., I sent to Gottingen, according to direction, 

 with a note, to Gauss. And those to Bessel and Encke I 

 enclosed with Bode's copy, and wrote a letter to the same by 

 way of thanks for some kind enquiries he had made after 

 me ; and now I see that fourteen days after this good man 

 [Bode] departed this world in his eightieth year, but I have 

 no doubt he has delivered the papers immediately, for he 

 had no illness, and was at his last horn* at his writing-table 

 employed with writing the Berliner Jahrbuch for 1830. 



The copies were, after being dried, perfectly clean, no 

 stain remaining, and that they were so long detained is not 

 the fault of Mr. G., for the Michaelmas messenger was the 



