:244 Caroline Liter ctia Herschcl. [1831. 



suppose, how to rid yourself of a pestering fool by answering 

 coolly, or not at all. 



23rd, afternoon. Yesterday I was interrupted again, and 

 the whole morning of the present, which I had intended to 

 spend with you at .Slough, has again been taken up with 

 gabbling with my radical servant. But the day after Easter 

 I get another, and I hope I shall have better luck ; but till 

 then I am not mistress of my time, therefore will hasten to 

 inform you that Mrs. BeckedorfF is packing up a parcel for 



me, which is going from here the day after Easter 



The packet contains a tablecloth, witli twelve napkins (the 

 cloth is eight yards long, Mrs. B. says), which I hope my 

 dear niece will do me the pleasure to accept as a remem- 

 brance of her old aunt. 



Your book* I have read as far as page 150, and met with 

 nothing but what I clearly can comprehend, and promise 

 myself much pleasure in reading the rest, which hitherto I 

 have been prevented to do by being continually interrupted, 

 and besides not being able to read many pages at a time 

 before the lines run one into another. 



My dear niece said in her letter to me your book would 

 cause a sensation, and so it has, as I hear from all quarters. 

 I am told it has been translated into German from a French 

 translation, and much [all in admiration] is appearing in 

 Gelehrten Anzeigen, which I have not yet been able to get 

 a sight of. .... I must give over and defer writing till I 

 uiii provided with pen, ink, and paper. The first thing my 

 radical servant did when she came to me Avas to break the 

 1> lille [containing] the ink of my own making, which was to 



have lasted me all my life -time First and foremost, 



give my love to your dear mother, and believe me, ever your 

 most affectionate aunt, 



C. HERSCHEL. 



* Discourse on the study of Natural Philosophy. 



