May I request you to remember me kindly to Mr. and to Miss Beckedorff, and to be assured yourself of the true esteem and regard with which I remain, my dear Miss Herschel, Yours very faithfully, SOPHIA MATILDA. LONDON, _June 16, 1823_. [Sidenote: 1823. _Letter to J. F. W. Herschel._] FROM MISS HERSCHEL TO J. F. W. HERSCHEL, ESQ. HANOVER, _June 24, 1823_. MY DEAREST NEPHEW,— I had intended to write you a long and very learned epistle, but I am just now informed that the messenger will leave Hanover within a very few hours, and I must content myself with giving you the outlines of what I would have said. I believe I have mentioned in a former letter to your mother that a Professor Pfaff has announced his intention of giving a translation of your father’s papers. It runs in my head that this professor is but a _Jackanapes_,[32] who will spoil the _broth_,[32] and I wished he would not meddle with what he cannot understand. But I thought it but right to inform you of what is come to my knowledge, particularly as I was told it had been announced again that the translation would appear with corrections and explanations. Dr. Luthmer (in the “Ast. Jahrbuch” for this year you may see a paper by this gentleman) told me since there were two professors of that name (brothers), one an _astrologer_, and if it was the latter he would make nonsense of it. Miss Baldwin mentioned you were at Cambridge on the business of having your father’s papers printed. I think it could not be amiss if something of your intention could be mentioned in the _Edinburgh Quarterly Review_, which appears here at Hanover, and of course throughout Germany, that it may be known that your father’s labours are in _yours_ and of course in the _most able hands_ to make remarks on them. I only wish to draw your attention this way, but say nothing.