I have been looking for the little inferior planet to cross the sun, which it hasn't done, and I got an article ready for the paper and then hadn't the courage to publish--not for fear of the readers, but for fear that I should change my own ideas by the time 'twas in print.
I am hoping, however, to have something by the meeting of the Scientific Association in August,--some paper,--not to get reputation for myself,--my reputation is so much beyond me that as policy I should keep quiet,--but in order that my telescope may show that it is at work.

I am embarrassed by the amount of work it might do--as you do not know which of Mrs.Browning's poems to read, there are so many beauties.
The little republic of San Marino presented Miss Mitchell, in 1859, with a bronze medal of merit, together with the _Ribbon_ and _Letters Patent_ signed by the two captains regent.

This medal she prized as highly as the gold one from Denmark.
"Nantucket, May 12, 18[60]....

I send you a notice of an occultation; the last sentence and the last figures are mine.

You and I can never occult, for have we not always helped one another to shine?
Do you have Worcester's Dictionary?
I read it continually.