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loss to have been deprived of the excellent treatise written 

 by your eminent nephew, had it not reached its destination. 

 Allow me, madame, to avail myself of this opportunity to 

 pay my respects to a lady, whose name is so intimately 

 connected with the most brilliant astronomical discoveries 

 of the age, and whose claims to the gratitude of every as- 

 tronomer will be as conspicuous as your own exertions for 

 extending the boundaries of our knowledge, and for assist- 

 ing to develope the discoveries by which the name of your 

 great brother has been rendered so famous throughout the 

 literary world. 



I am, with great esteem and regard, madame, 



Your most obedient, humble servant, 



T. F. ENCKE. 



MISS HERSCHEL TO SIR J. F. W. HERSCHEL. 



HANOVER, Oct. 25, 1831. 

 MY DEAR SIR JOHN, 



But mind, you are still my dear nephew, and will be 

 so good as to give the above -to your dear mother. With 

 this last sum, I have actually received since I am here a 

 thousand pounds ; a sum which I had no idea (nor I am 

 sure your father neither) you would have been burdened with 

 so long, for when I left England I thought my life was not 

 worth a farthing. But no more of this for the present. . . . 



You promised me another Catalogue of double stars, but 

 I suppose you have had no time to arrange them. But do 

 not observe too much in cold weather. Write rather books 

 to make folks stare at your profound knowledge 



Loves and compliments to all whom we love, and God 

 bless my dear nephew, says 



Your affectionate aunt, 



CAR. HERSCHEL. 



P.S. I received Miss B.'s letter on the 16th. It gave 



