is not to look too high, but trust to his own good behaviour and serving faithfully those who can employ them; then they will not want encouragement.
This is the way I compose myself, for help I cannot anybody any longer, and it hurts me, for I am too feeble to think much of these kind of things. The 4th April goes the messenger, and my nephew will receive my handy works and a few little publications. I have yet some publications to make which will take me some time, to go with the catalogue: and then I shall have nothing to put me in mind of the hours I spent with my dear brother at the telescopes, and for that reason I keep the five printed vols. of my brother's papers, and read them over once more before I send them to my nephew, and besides, it would be too much at once, for books are heavy.
Farewell, my dear Lady H., and remember me to Miss B., who, I hope, will be good to me and write often to
Your affectionate sister,
P.S.—Mr. H is released from his plague, for his wife is dead.
MISS HERSCHEL TO J. F. W. HERSCHEL.
I hope the MS. Catalogue of Nebulæ and that of the stars, which have been observed in the series of sweeps along with the eight volumes from which they have been drawn out, will not unfrequently be of use to you.
The gauges were brought immediately after observations into a book called "Register of Star Gauges," which was
