318 Caroline Lucretia Herschel. [1841. 



give over talking about these things ; it downright fatigues 

 me. But these folks would not have called the Herschelian 

 construction useless if they had seen the struggle, during 

 the years from 1781 to '86, to get a sight of the Satel- 

 lites of the Georgium Sidus, when, after throwing aside the 



speculum, they stood broad before us Pray, does 



South live still ? 



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



Mardi 31, 1841. 



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Not to send blank paper, I will fill it by copying 

 from my Day-book the names of .the visitors I had to receive 

 on the 16th of March. This I can do mechanically and by 

 feeling, and it serves to pass away the time, as I cannot 

 see to read for any length of time. 



By way of being ready to see anybody by twelve o clock, 

 I rose an hour earlier than usual, but before I was dressed, 

 Mrs. Beckedorff and Mrs. W. Clarke sent each a beautiful 

 moss-rose and card. Soon after, Mrs. Clarke and General 

 Halkett came ; Generalin Borse and daughter brought 

 violets ; Frau von Both ; Ober Medicinal-Kath Miihry ; 

 >fiss Beckedorff; Madam Groskopff ; Hofrathin Ubelode 

 brought mignonette ; Oberjustiz-Eath von Werloff sent 

 crocuses ; Fraulein von Werloff sent a card and hyacinths ; 

 Dr. Groskopff, Hauptman Buse, Alexis Eichter, Major 

 Miiller ; all these I saw between twelve and four o'clock, 

 :md several for a good while together. I talked and com- 

 plimented myself into a fever, of course "looked blooming," 

 and am to live to be a hundred years old. What stuff! 

 After eating my solitary dinner I tried to get a little sleep, 

 sis I generally do, but before I could compose myself 

 enough, two of Major Miiller's sisters came and remained two 

 hours with me ; after they left me, Fraulein von Werloff 



