I made a fire very quickly, prepared the coffee, baked the graham bread, toasted white bread, trimmed the solar lamp, and made another fire in the dining-room before seven o'clock.
"I always thought that servant-girls had an easy time of it, and I still think so.

I really found an hour too long for all this, and when I rang the bell at seven for breakfast I had been waiting fifteen minutes for the clock to strike.
"I went to the Atheneum at 9.30, and having decided that I would take the Newark and Cambridge places of the comet, and work them up, I did so, getting to the three equations before I went home to dinner at 12.30.I omitted the corrections of parallax and aberrations, not intending to get more than a rough approximation.

I find to my sorrow that they do not agree with those from my own observations.

I shall look over them again next week.
"At noon I ran around and did up several errands, dined, and was back again at my post by 1.30.Then I looked over my morning's work,--I can find no mistake.

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.
"I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.
"I saw also, to-day, in the 'Monthly Notices,' a plan for measuring the light of stars by degrees of illumination,--an idea which had occurred to me long ago, but which I have not practised.
"October 23.