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are new. But I won't plague you any more with this at 



present. 



***** 



Believe me, dear Aunt, 



Your affectionate Nephew, 



J. F. W. H. 



MISS HERSCHEL TO LADY HERSCHEL. 



HANOVER, July 10, 1827. 

 MY DEAR LADY HERSCHEL, 



***** 



It makes my heart overflow with gratitude when I 

 see so many worthy people remember me with kindness, 

 and I particularly rejoice that Mrs. Morsom has borne her 

 misfortunes with such resignation so as to be still able to 

 participate in the society of her friends ; of which I am, 

 alas ! through the great distance, entirely cast out, and am 

 obliged to trust alone to myself for keeping up my spirits, 

 and to bear- pain and sickness, or feel pleasure without 

 having anybody to participate in my feelings. Out of my 

 family connections, however, I can boast to possess the 

 esteem and love of all who are great and good in Hanover, 

 but to a lonely old woman, who is seldom able to go into or 

 receive company, this does not compensate for the want of 

 sympathising relations. 



But I have now, by change of apartments, made myself 

 quite independent of anybody. As long as I can do some- 

 thing for myself this will do very well; but I must not 

 meet troubles at a distance. I may, perhaps, be spared a 

 long confinement before I leave this world, else such a thing 

 as a trusty servant is, I believe, hardly to be met with in this 

 city, which, along with the people in it, are so altered since 

 the French occupation and the return of the military with 

 their extravagant and dissipated notions, imbibed when in: 



