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summer again. The thermometer was at 83 in the 

 shade yesterday, and to-day promises to be as much. 

 We are delighted with our two months' residence at this 

 place, which we shall see with regret draw towards a 

 close the end of this month. October we mean to spend 

 at Paris, before we return to- the nebulosities of London. 

 During my residence in Paris, before we came here, I 

 never had the good luck to meet with your friend M.' 

 Arago; had I not been reading your book, I should 

 have begged you to give me a letter for him. But as it 

 is, and as my stay at Paris will now be so short, I shall 

 content myself with looking up at a respectful distance to 

 all your great fixed stars of science, excepting always 

 yourself, dear Mrs. Somerville. No "disturbing influ- 

 ence " will, I hope, ever throw me out of the orbit of 

 your intimacy and friendship, whose value, believe me, is 

 most duly and accurately calculated by your ignorant 

 but very affectionate friend, 



M. BERRY. 



FROM LORD BROUGHAM TO MRS. SOMERVILLE. 



1834. 



MY DEAR MRS. SOMERVILLE, 



Many thanks for the sheets, which I have read 

 with equal pleasure and instruction as those I formerly 

 had from you. One or two things I could have troubled 

 you with, but they are of little moment. I shall note them 

 The only one that is at all material relates to the way you 

 mention Dr. Young not that I object to the word " illus- 

 trious," or as applied to him. But as you don't give it 

 to one considerably more so, it looks either as if you over- 

 rated him, or underrated Davy, or (which I suppose to be 



