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me, and said she would next summer visit lier late husband's 

 relations in England, and then she would not fail of seeing 

 you. You must love her for my sake, for she really takes 

 some pains to give me pleasure, bringing me flowers, taking 

 me an airing in her fine English equipage, &c. I must not 

 forget the general's lady, a second wife, of course a step- 

 mother of my young friend. She is Scotch (a Graham), 

 and brought me little Christmas pies in her reticule on 

 New-year's Day, of the young lady's making the only good 

 kind I have tasted in Hanover, and they were as good as my 

 nephew's mamma ever made. 



MISS HERSCHEL TO LADY HERSCHEL. 



August 3, 1840. 

 MY DEAREST NIECE, 



.... But first and foremost, I must beg you Avill 

 give my best thanks to my dear niece Caroline for her very 

 sensible and very clever letter, and I only wish I may be 

 often favoured by her fair hands with such favourable 

 accounts of all your health and contentment with your new 

 situation. 



I am not able to write long letters, and must content my- 

 self with saying, in as few words as possible, that if my nephew 

 thought the seven-foot telescope worth the acceptance of the 

 Koyal Astronomical Society, it is well ! . . . . (Mem. Its 

 only being painted deal was, because it should look like the 

 one with which the Georgium Sidus was discovered.) 



I have also the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 

 to thank you for, twenty pages. I suppose I have nothing 

 to do but to accept them. But I think almost it is mocking 

 me to look upon me as a Member of an Academy ; I that 

 have lived these eighteen years (against my will and inten- 

 tion) without finding as much as a single comet. But no 

 more of these terrible eighteen } r ears just now 



