322 Caroline Lucretia Herschel. [1842. 



Oh ! how I should like to hear some of the glees and 

 catches sung by the great and little family in the music-room 

 at Collingwood ; but it was not to be ! and I had rather leave 

 off and leave some room for the many good wishes to your- 

 self, my dear nephew, and all those who are dear to you, 

 and believe me, 



My dear niece, 



Ever } r our most affectionate aunt, 



CAROLINE HEKSCHEL. 



MISS HERSCHEL TO LADY HERSCHEL. 



HANOVER, March 3, 1842. 

 MY DEAREST NIECE, 



.... Nothing runs in my head but what concerns 

 my family and connections, and I am at present living over 



again the last eighty-nine years of my existence 



But I will leave off teazing you with these old stories with 

 which I am obliged to amuse myself, for I cannot see to 

 work or read, and must therefore either sleep or scribble, 

 for my visitors come mostly in the forenoon, their evenings 

 being taken up with public amusements or private parties, 

 of which I have not been able to be a partaker these three 

 years, for I see by my account-books it is so many since I 

 left off subscribing to the play. But to please Mrs. Clarke 

 I made the experiment on the 3rd of February, whether I 

 should come home alive after seeing King Charles II. in 

 Wapping, acted at the English Ambassador's. Mrs. Clarke 

 came about twelve with an invitation from the Honourable 

 Mrs. Edgecombe their house not containing a room large 

 enough for giving great balls, they contrived this wa}>- of 

 entertaining the company. The enclosed playbill will show 



the rest. 



There was no time for consulting milliners, and Mrs. 



