268 Caroline Lucretia Herschel. [1834 



the so very interesting work of her nephew, the worthy 

 follower of a celebrated father. 



The gentleman here, a Mr. Schwabe, to whom it was 

 destined, looks with eager curiosity on the discoveries Mr. 

 Herschel will make in the new regions of heaven he is now 

 examining, and if she would be inclined, after receiving anj r 

 interesting news, to make communication of it, it would 

 always be accepted with the best thanks of 



FBEDRICA, 



Duchess of Anhalt Dessau. 

 Miss CAROLINE HERSCHEL. 



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



Sept. 11, 1834. 

 MY DEAREST NEPHEW, 



Your welcome letter of June 6 I received on the 

 19th August .... and I know not how to thank you 

 sufficiently for the cheering account you give of the climate 

 agreeing so well with j r ou and all who are so dear to me, and 

 that you find all about you so agreeable and comfortable, 

 .... so that I have nothing left to wish for but a con- 

 tinuation of the same, and that I may only live to see the 

 handwriting of your dear Caroline, though I have my 

 doubts about lasting till then, for the thermometer standing 

 80 and 90 for upwards of two months, day and night, in 

 my rooms (to which I am mostly confined) has made great 

 havoc in my brittle constitution. 1 beg you will look to it 

 that she learns to make her figures as you will find them in 

 your father's MSS., such as he taught me to make. The 

 daughter of a mathematician must write plain figures. 



My little grand-nephew making alliance with your work- 

 men shews that he is taking after his papa. I see you now 

 in idea (memory ?) running about in petticoats among your 

 father's carpenters, working with little tools of your own, 

 and John Wiltshire (one of Pitt's men, whom you may 



