242 Caroline Lucretia Herschel. 



MISS HERSCHEL TO J. F. W. HERSCHEL, ESQ. 



HANOVER, Oct. 27, 1830. 

 My DEAEEST NEPHEW, 



I see by my memorandum-book that I sent a letter 

 to your dear mother on the 20th August, partly in answer 

 to one of Miss Baldwin's, which contained the melancholy 

 account of Miss Isabella [Stewart's] dangerous state of 

 health. I have ever since been very uneasy, and wishing 

 for more cheering information, because I know what a 

 drawback it would be on the happiness of all your dear 

 connection if you should lose her, besides the interruption 

 it must cause in the hitherto cheerful correspondence in 

 which even my dear niece took the pen to join in affording 

 me the only comfort I am yet capable of receiving ..... 



Tell your dear Margaret that the very day on which the 

 letter arrived, in which she requested some hair, I sent for 

 the hair-dresser and made him cut off all which was useless 

 to me, leaving plenty for a toupee and a little curl in the 

 poll. But I repented not having kept a few out of the 

 plait, which I might have sent in a letter, as I understand it 

 is designed for a talisman against the evils of this hurly- 

 burlying world. But I consoled myself with the thoughts 

 that no harm could possibly assail the dear little creature as 

 long as she is under the care of her affectionate and excel- 

 lent mother, leaving a loving father out of the account. 



Dr. Groskopf has been zum Hitter ernannt by his present 

 Majesty. So was Dr. Miihry last week. If all is betitled 

 in England and Germany, why is not my nephew, J. H., a 

 lord, or a wycount at least (query) ? General Komarzewsky 

 used to say to your father, Why does not he (meaning King 

 George III.) make you Duke of Slough ? 



