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[Check the above date - JH in Memoirs of Ast. Soc.] JH would have wrtten earlier regarding WW's invitation for Margaret Herschel and their daughter to stay at Trinity Lodge in June, but he wanted to consult 'my better half' first. Margaret will write personally to Coredlia to confirm matters but he does not think his daughter will go: 'she is not yet more than 14 and is not yet published (come out) so that her mamma thinks it will not be expedient to bring her'. If 'Hopkins would not so horribly darken his meaning by atrocious formula which he sheds abroad like a cutter fish his cut in the sea - I should say that he has put the sliding theory in a decenter aspect than it seemed to stand'.