. vii.] Her Brothers Portrait. 28. r > 



of corresponding with all those known ones if I can possibly 

 help it, and have through his hands sent copies of your 

 father's likeness to Struve, Schumacher, Gauss, Bessel, 

 Encke, Olbers, &c. Gauss sent me word it was hung up in 

 his library. Encke sent me a very pretty letter of thanks. 



.... That sending is an ugly thing. Mrs. Somerville 

 sent me her book with a letter dated April 16th, which I 

 received October 9th, coming along with Mr. Baily's pub- 

 lication, presented by the Lords Commissioners of the Admi- 

 ralty to Miss Herschel. You cannot think how agitated I 

 feel on such occasions, coming to me with such things ! 



an old poor sick creature in her dotage I was going 



to say something yet of Mr. Baily's labours, but the paper 

 is at an end ; but I hope you will now soon read in your 

 own library at Slough what the " Quarterly Keview," No. 

 CIX., says, and what your Cambridge friend Whewell and 

 others have said in short, Newton remains Newton ! God 

 bless nry dear nephew and niece ! . . . . My heart is too 

 full I can say no more than that 



I am your affectionate aunt, 



CAR. HERSCHEL. 



MISS HERSCHEL TO LADY HERSCHEL. 



HANOVER, October 20, 1835. 

 MY DEAREST NIECE, 



From June 14 to October the 1st, and not any the 

 least account, was rather too much for me to bear, espe- 

 cially during the months when those few friends who some- 

 times cheer me by a friendly call had all left the town to 



make summer excursions 



I have a few memorandums for my nephew, and will for 

 the present take leave of my dear niece with my most heart- 

 felt wishes that every future account with which. I may yet 

 be blessed from her dear hand may be like the last. 



