232 Caroline Lncretia Hersckel. [1828. 







now I have but one wish, that I may take your good opinion 

 with me into my grave. 



I have no time or inclination to think much on this sub- 

 ject, else I could say a great deal about the clumsy speech of 

 the V. P. Whoever says too much of me says too little of 

 your father ! and only can cause me uneasiness. 



Mr. South I have seen only twice, or perhaps three 

 times, and that was in yours and your dear father's presence, 

 and to all conversation between you and Mr. South I 

 could only be a listener, and, seeing you so well agree 

 together I congratulated myself on your having found a 

 friend possessing much knowledge of what passes in com- 

 mon life, of which a young and deep mathematician and 

 philosopher has had no time of laying in a great stock. 



I heard you would make a visit to Struve at Dorpat 

 this summer together, and I concluded I should then have 

 had a call on the way home. But on that account I feel 

 now relieved from the painful prospect of a final parting 

 from you once more, though it will cost me many melan- 

 choly hours to bring that to paper which I yet wish for 

 you to know. But I am too much destroyed at present 

 to explain myself any further, and will only say that by 

 the Michaelmas messenger I will send every scrap of 

 paper which I have yet kept solely for my amusement and 

 for assisting my memory. You may look them over at 

 some leisure [time] and then destroy them ; for I go not 

 one night to bed but thinking it may be the last of my 



life I have a numerous and valuable acquaintance, 



but I keep all my difficulties to myself, for I was ever care- 

 ful not to injure a relation, or one with whom I am con- 

 nected, in the opinion of others, by saying what I think of 

 them. 



I must prepare to pay a visit at the villa of a friend 



