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July 25/i. Mr. Hausmann, junior, and Mr. Hohenbaum 

 called to look at the photograpliical drawing. I am told it 

 is the only specimen of the kind in Hanover. 



This Da c y-book, No. 2, is now full, and I shall not be easy 

 till it is deposited in a portfolio, in which will also be 

 found the Mem. -book 9 It often enables me to con- 

 tradict erroneous impertinent notions concerning my brother 

 William's disinterested character. 



I am now not able even to look over, much less to correct, 

 what I have scribbled, but it must go as it is. Perhaps my 

 dear niece may look into them at some leisure moment, and 

 she will see what a solitary and useless life I have led these 

 seventeen years, all owing to not finding Hanover, nor any- 

 one in it, like what I left, when the best of brothers took 

 me with him to England in August, 1772 ! 



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



SLOUGH, Oct. 23, 1839. 



DEAR AUNT, 



.... Now let me reply to your two letters of 

 August 26 and October 10, the last of which, being so 

 entirely in your old style, made us very happ} r . I now go 

 so little to London, and then only on the business of the 

 Royal Society respecting this magnetic expedition, that it 

 has not yet been practicable for me to call on Dr. Kiiper, 

 whom I well remember, however, at Cumberland Lodge, 

 and since, 



As to sending either of our boys to Germany, it is time 

 enough, as W. is yet only six years old, and I assure you he 

 is now learning German very fast. 



M. desires me to tell you, in answer to your question 

 whether she preserves your letters, that she does so, most 

 carefully. She is sorry she omitted saying so in her last 



