256 Caroline Lucretia Herschel. [1832-1833. 



verian militaiy ?) there was no ball in the evening, nor any 

 the slightest provision for the amusement or participation of 

 tUe fair. So Mars and Venus, I suppose, have had a 

 "tiff!" Adieu. 



TO LADY HERSCHEL. 



HANOVER, Dec. 4, .1832. 

 MY DEAREST NIECE, 



I shall in future, when I have anything to say to my 

 doar nephew address myself to you, well knowing his time 



is too precious for spending even on reading 



Thank him most heartily for the " Edinburgh Review," and 



the description of the wonderful machine But here 



is the grievance I cannot possibly read the Review, my 

 sight is almost lost, and I must wait till Miss Beckedorff or 

 somebody can read to me. .... Dr. Tias, who travelled 

 through Hanover, called on me to-day. He talked strangely 

 about my nephew's intention of going to the Cape of Good 

 Hope. Mr. Hausmann told me some weeks ago that the 

 Times contained the same report, to which I replied, "It is 

 a lie ! " but what I heard from Dr. Tias to-day makes me 

 almost believe it possible. Ja ! if I was thirty or forty 

 years younger, and could go too ? in Gottes nahmeii ! But 

 I will not think about it till you yourself tell me more of it, 

 for I have enough to think of my cramps, blindness, sleep- 

 less nights, &c. 



TO SIR J. F. W. HERSCHEL. 



HANOVER, March 30, 1833. 

 MY DEAKEST NEPHEW, 



Ever since the 6th of March, the day on which I 

 received my dear niece's of the 26th of February, I have 



