284- Caroline Liicretia Herschel. 



thing very remarkable I must tell you, y Virginis is now a 

 single star in both the twenty-foot and the seven-foot 

 equatorial ! ! ! 



Your affectionate nephew, 



J. F. W. HERSCHEL. 



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



HANOVER, June 29, 1836. 

 MY DEAREST NEPHEW, 



I do not know where to begin, for I see it is nearly a 

 twelvemonth since I gave some account of nryself, and in all 

 that time never returned my thanks for the three letters I 



received I have a great deal to say, and will begin 



with accounting for my long silence, by confessir 3 that I 

 have throughout the whole winter been too ill to do 

 anything besides nursing myself, and putting myself in a 

 condition to appear before strangers, which I am not able 

 to do till after twelve or one at noon, and the time which I 

 wanted to rest after my exertion and getting my breakfast 

 was generally taken up by pacifying the gulls about the 

 foolish paragraphs they had been reading the night before 

 in the Clubs. I never read, or would read, any of them, 

 but when I heard of anything appearing rational concerning 

 you, I copied or procured the paper for nryself, and then I 

 found among the rest a letter of yours to Professor Plana, 

 in Turin, dated December 28th, 1834. And not being able 

 to do anything of use to you myself, I begged Capt. 

 Miiller to cause those observations of June 21st, &c., to be 

 made by somebody here in Hanover, and the enclosed letter 



will, I hope, meet with a gracious reception I 



believe Dr. Heere will not fail the next equinox to be at his 

 post, and you may hear more of him. 



Capt. Miiller is at present with Gauss, and will deliver 

 all your messages personally, for you must know I beware 



