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tographic copy of a little engraving or two may serve to 

 amuse you. Meanwhile the star reductions are not for- 

 gotten. Thirty more sweeps only remain to be reduced, 

 and I am already in the engraver's hands with the nebulae 

 pictures. And so the world wags with 



Your affectionate nephew, 



J. F. W. HERSCHEL. 



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



.... On the 30th of last month I finished the reduc- 

 tions of all my Cape nebulte and double stars, and have got 

 all the former and all but a very small number of the latter 

 arranged in catalogues in order of Rt. Ascension for the 

 epoch 1830, January 1st. Thus these two most important 

 parts of my Cape work are at last secured against loss, and 

 it will not be long now before I shall begin to prepare for 

 the work of publication in good earnest. I mean as to the 

 narrative part. 



Dec. 8, 1842. 



LADY HERSCHEL TO MISS HERSCHEL. 



Jan. 12, 1843. 



.... Your nephew sends you his translation of Schil- 

 ler's beautiful and instructive poem, " The Walk," in which 

 he tied himself down to the original metre, and each 

 couplet contains the sense of the corresponding couplet in 

 German, so that the full strength of the English language 

 was required to do justice to the comprehensiveness of 

 Schiller's ideas. There was a beautiful walk up the side of 

 Table Mountain which always reminded Herschel of this 

 poem, and made him love it ; and lately there have appeared 

 in an Edinburgh Review translations of all Schiller's minor 

 poems, some of which are well done ; but he thought " The 



