296 Caroline Liter etia HerscheL [isss. 



with a salary of 70 a-year, whom I once heard lament 

 that all the planets happened to pass the meridian in 

 the night-time ! " 



The entries are chiefly of the numerous visitors she 

 received, but there are frequent intervals of several 

 months when illness or disinclination to write pre- 

 vented her continuing her Journal regularly. The 

 English Quarterly and Monthly Keviews and news- 

 papers, and James's novels, supplied her with constant 

 reading, and every allusion to her brother's or her 

 nephew's labours is carefully noted. It is evident that 

 she still was in the habit of taking ample notes of any 

 book that interested her, in spite of complaints of the 

 growing failure of sight, and that, when tolerably well, 

 no day was considered altogether satisfactory which 

 was passed in solitude. It was in May, 1833, that 

 she moved to No. 376, Braunschwei^er Strasse, and 

 here she continued to dwell for the remainder of her 

 days. 



MISS HERSCHEL TO LADY HERSCHEL. 



HANOVER, July 30, 1838. 

 MY DEAKEST NIECE, 



I hope that when you receive this my dear nephew, with 

 his precious charge (little William), will be safely restored 

 to your longing arms, and that he may have found you, with 

 all the little family, in perfect health. I wish to be assured 

 by a few lines from your dear hands as soon as possible, for 

 I cannot divest myself of a fear that the botheration and 

 intrusion of some of the stupid Hanoverians must have 



