254 Caroline Lucretia Herschel. [1832. 



is only such morsels as these which keep up a desire for 

 living any longer. But the premium of the King of Denmark's 

 medal, for the discovery of telescopic comets, provokes me 

 beyond all endurance, for it is of no use to me. One of my 

 eyes is nearly dark, and I can hardly find the line again I 

 have just been tracing by feeling on paper. 



Pray do not forget me when my nephew's recension of 

 Mrs. Somerville's works makes its appearance 



TO SIR J. F. W. HERSCHEL. 



HANOVER, April 20, 1832. 

 MY DEAKEST NEPHEW, 



***** 



My dear niece has promised me your article * on 

 the writings of Mrs. Somerville. I hope she will not forget 

 it, nor you the Catalogue of double stars. Such things 

 make me very happy, but of any expensive* publications I 

 would not wish you to throw away upon me now; it makes 

 me only grudge to think of having to leave them in the 

 hands of blockheads. But if you have anything for Gottin- 

 gen, Encke, or Bessel, it amuses me to forward it. Olbers 

 has been dangerously ill for some time ; they tell me he is too 

 fat, and lives too well. 



I only write this by way of announcing the parcel, that 

 you may inquire for it should it not come to hand in due 

 time, else I am very tired, and must yet make up the parcel, 

 and I want to show myself once more to-morrow evening at 

 the Oratorio, as it is for the poor, and will be the last per- 

 formance this season 



EXTRACT FROM A LETTER OF SIR JOHN HERSCHEL. 



HANOVER, June 19, 1832. 



.... I found my aunt wonderfully well and very nicely 

 and comfortably lodged, and we have since been on the full 

 * In the Quarterly Review. 



