304 Caroline Lucretia Herschel. [1839-1840: 



to continue to take some exercise as long as the weather 

 and the length of the afternoon will permit. 



Aug. 26M. My niece Knipping came in the afternoon to 

 assist me in some needlework we did not do much ! 



Se})t. 25f/. To-day I was made happy by a visit of 

 Alexander Humboldt ; which, though it was extended to 

 the utmost limit of the time which this interesting man 

 could spare me, was too short for all I wished to hear and 

 had to say, which, as the theme of our conversation was my 

 nephew, may he easily imagined. 



Oct. 5th Qth. Mr. Hohembauni and the carpenter were 

 with me to pack up the seven-foot telescope. I assisted as 

 well as I could, being very ill all the while. 



Oct. 7th. Dr. G. called for a moment, but nobody else ! 



Dec. lOi/t. I w r ent in the evening to the concert, where 

 I exposed myself most sadly by falling a-crying when the 

 King most kindly came to me to inquire after my health. 

 I do not think I shall have the courage to show myself 

 there again in a hurry. 



Jan. %ltli. This is the first day since the 30th December 

 that the ice is detached from iny sitting-room window. 



Jan. 31si. Mr. Hausmann brought me some Journals, 

 and tallced for an hour of old times with me, as he ever 

 does, good man ! 



Feb. 7th. A letter from my niece came this morning by 

 the Hamburger post, which will make me happy for some 

 time, and make me bear my painful solitude more patiently. 



March 17th. Thank God the 7th and 16th March are got 

 over, and I begin to recollect that I have much else to do 

 than bewail myself at being obliged to spend such days 

 severed from all that arc, or ivcrc, so dear / .... I found 

 my poor friend [Mrs. Beckedorff] very much altered, but 

 before I left her I thought she looked a twelvemonth 

 younger for our two hours' chat. But we both were obliged 



