298 Caroline Liicretia Herschel. [1838. 



brances of them, and for the many pretty and valuable 

 tilings you have sent ; and till then y believe me, 

 My dear aunt, 



Ever your affectionate nephew, 



J. F. W. HERSCHEL. 



MISS HEESCHEL TO SIR J. F. W. HEKSCHEL. 



HANOVEK, Aug. 21, 1838. 

 MY DEAEEST NEPHEW, 



By the arrival of your letter of the 6th I was re- 

 lieved from my fears for the safety of you and your dear 

 little fellow-traveller, almost a week sooner than I had 



reason to hope. 



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.... I had so longed for a few hours of confidential 

 conversation with you which would have spared me the un- 

 pleasant task of writing about earthly matters My 



good neighbours came to wish me joy, and congratulate me 

 on having seen my glorious nephew and his son (who has 

 left no few admirers behind, I can tell you). 



Dr. Miihry has lost a sister, a solitary old maid, like my- 

 self, whom they could not leave till she was buried. But 

 she was in some respects better oft than I, for I found it 

 necessary to order all these matters myself. Miss Becke- 

 dorff and Mde. Knipping will at my death have to deliver a 

 sealed packet to Dr. Groskopff, my executor, in which, on 

 his opening in their presence, he will find the means requi- 

 site for discharging all the items specified in an enclosed 

 memorandum of directions. Such matters I had wished to 

 talk over with you, thinking it not unnecessary you should 

 know a little about the way in which I have always managed 

 my affairs. As soon as I was left to myself, in the year 

 1788, I kept a book strictly accounting for my expenses, 

 which was to serve as a voucher of the orderly life I led. 



