my brother to whom I could apply for information the moment a doubt occurred, never returned again, and often have I been racking my poor brains through a day and a night to very little purpose. I found it necessary to continue my memoranda of "work done" to the last day I had the care of my brother's MS. papers. But I had rather copy a few days more, as they contain the discovery of my first comet, and will serve also to show that I attempted to register all discovered nebulæ, after a precept my brother had left me, as this was necessary for revising the MS. of the catalogue of the first thousand nebulæ, which he expected at his return to find ready for correction from the printers.
22nd.—I calculated all the day for Flamsteed's Catalogue. Lord Mulgrave called this evening
23rd.—Received letters from Hanover. Finished calculating for Flamsteed's Catalogue.The two following short letters were carefully preserved, and, though they contain nothing of importance, they are of interest as being of the very few from the same pen which are not on scientific subjects.
FROM W. HERSCHEL TO CAROLINE HERSCHEL.
HANOVER, Friday, July 14, 1786.
