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HERSCHEL AND HIS WORK
who helped him to make it, was the scapegrace, Dietrich.[1] Family histories are strange things! And yet Caroline at seventy-eight years of age says to her nephew, "Whoever says too much of me says too little of your father! and can only cause me uneasiness," while Dietrich never believed he got even fair play for himself from parent, brother, or sister.
- ↑ See William Herschel's will, Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xcii. Dietrich got £2000, but Alexander and Caroline got £100 a year each. As things went in those days, the undeserving fared far better than the really deserving.
