This, of course, made a very desirable increase to her income, but not necessarily to her expenses.

The tables of the planet Venus were assigned to her.

In this year, too, she was employed by Professor Bache, of the United States Coast Survey, in the work of an astronomical party at Mount Independence, Maine.
"1853.

I was told that Miss Dix wished to see me, and I called upon her.
It was dusk, and I did not at once see her; her voice was low, not particularly sweet, but very gentle.

She told me that she had heard Professor Henry speak of me, and that Professor Henry was one of her best friends, the truest man she knew.