Your affectionate nephew, J. F. W. HERSCHEL. SIR J. F. W. HERSCHEL TO MISS HERSCHEL. ... On the 30th of last month I finished the _reductions_ of all my Cape nebulæ and double stars, and have got all the former and all but a very small number of the latter arranged in catalogues in order of Rt. Ascension for the epoch 1830, January 1st. Thus these two most important parts of my Cape work are at last secured against _loss_, and it will not be long now before I shall begin to prepare for the work of publication in good earnest. I mean as to the narrative part. _Dec. 8, 1842._ [Sidenote: 1843. _Sir J. Herschel’s Translation._] LADY HERSCHEL TO MISS HERSCHEL. _Jan. 12, 1843._ ... Your nephew sends you his translation of Schiller’s beautiful and _instructive_ poem, “The Walk,” in which he tied himself down to the original metre, and each couplet contains the sense of the corresponding couplet in German, so that the full strength of the English language was required to do justice to the comprehensiveness of Schiller’s ideas. There was a beautiful walk up the side of Table Mountain which always reminded Herschel of this poem, and made him love it; and lately there have appeared in an Edinburgh Review translations of all Schiller’s minor poems, some of which are well done; but he thought “The Walk” deserved to be better rendered, so he set about it, and distributed it among his friends as his Christmas sugarplum. The number of interesting autographs, criticisms, witticisms, &c., which have been thereupon returned, will make an amusing packet. One lady says (alluding to the singularity of the hexameter in English) that she found it difficult to get into the _step_ of the Walk; another, that the _Walk_ had got into a _Run_, it was so often carried off by friends from his table; another, not knowing whence it came, intended sending it to Herschel for his opinion on its merits! another, while admiring the ideas, says “to the _verse_ I am _averse_.” The good Misses Baillie, of Hampstead, have been greatly delighted with it. They desired their kindest remembrances to you. * * * * * MISS HERSCHEL TO LADY HERSCHEL. HANOVER, _March 1, 1843_.