April 7th.—I shut my house at Chalvy, and went with my maid to Slough, the latter to supply the place of the servants Mrs. H. took with her to town.
May 6th.—My brother went to take a paper to the R. S., and remained there till the 15th.
May 26th.—I returned home to Chalvy very ill with a bad leg, having waited too long before I called in assistance.
June 27th.—The carriage was sent to take me to Slough. Hitherto work had been daily sent me.
July 13th.—My brother, Mrs. H., my nephew John, and Miss Baldwin left Slough to go to Paris.
August 25th.—All returned with my nephew dangerously ill. Going daily for some hours to work at the Observatory, and to receive visitors and letters, had not hastened my recovery, for it required no less than seven months before I could be without the attendance of Dr. Pope.
March 25th.—I moved from Chalvy to Upton.
April 3rd.—Spent the day at Slough. Dr. and Miss Wilson, Miss Whites, and Professor Johnes, from Cambridge, were there.
April 12th.—Had an account of my sister Griesbach’s death. She died March 30th.
May 1st.—From the 1st till the 18th I worked with my brother at Slough, when he went to town, and I returned to Upton; but went daily to the library to work till the 26th, when my brother, with his family, came home from town.