278 Caroline Lucre fia Herschel. [rsss. 



cash enough behind to clear me from all and any obligations 

 to all who here do know me. Even the expenses of a re- 

 spectable funeral lie ready to enable my friend Mrs. Becke- 

 dorff, and one of my nieces (the widow of Amptmann Knip- 

 ping,* who lately came to settle at Hanover) to fulfil my 

 directions. 



I hope you will pardon my troubling you with such dole- 

 ful subjects, but I wish to show you that my income is by 

 one third more than I have the power to spend, for by a 

 twelve years' trial I find that I cannot get rid of more than 

 600 thl. = 100 per year, without making myself ridi- 

 culous. 



MISS HERSCHEL TO LADY HERSCHEL. 



HANOVER, August 6, 1835. 

 MY DEAREST NIECE, 



I dare not wait anj r longer for a return of better 

 spirits, such as in which I should like to reply to my 

 nephew's dated February 22nd, and yours of May 19th, for 

 I fear if I do not at least acknowledge the receipt of them,, 

 I shall not be gladdened again by such delightful descrip- 

 tions of your health and healthful situation, and my 

 nephew's contentment with the successful progress he in 

 making in his intended observations. 



At first, on reading them, I could turn wild, but this is 

 only a flash, for soon I fall in a reverie of what my dear 

 nephew's father would have felt if such letters could have 

 been directed to him, and cannot suppress my wish that his 

 life instead of mine had been spared until this present mo- 

 ment ; for what immense and wonderful discoveries have 



* This lady, the dtuightcr of Dietrich Hersehel, proved a most true, affec- 

 tionate, and trustworthy friend to the last. See her letter on Miss Herschel's 

 death. 



