From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 March 1841]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:
Lists those who visited CH on her birthday.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Lists those who visited CH on her birthday.
List of papers JH took from CLH on his 'last visit' to [Hanover]. Miscellaneous notes about relatives and acquaintances.
Promises in her next letter to comment about JH's 'chrysotype' photographic process.
Describes the visit of the Crown Prince and Princess [of Hanover?] on her 93rd birthday (16 March).
Urges JH to study a temporary index made by William Herschel that contains observations about types of zodiacal light.
Remarks that the citizens of Hanover 'are all out of their senses' over the newly completed railway. Has been confined to the upstairs of her home since 3 February.