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Redhill Observatory . Reigate
1858 . Feby. 2
Dear Sir
I feel that I have been very negligent in not acknowledging before the receipt of two interesting letters from you during the last year; but until lately I have been very closely occupied and upon work which hardly allowed of my extending my correspondence. The belief that our friend Admiral Manners was still a correspondent of yours allowed me also to hope that I might for a time defer writing to you. The contents of your letters were duly communicated to our Society, which highly appreciates your favours. I have lately dispatched to you copies, for your Observatory Library and for yourself, of my Catalogue of 3735 Circumpolar stars with 10 charts, which ought to reach you before
