Letter from C [Charles] Pritchard, Freshwater, to Sir John [Frederick William] Herschel He returns the letters with thanks. Pritchard became familiar with Herschel's thoughts on glass reflection within a week of receiving his Cape book. He believes that Mr H [Richard Hodgson] has not read Herschel's paragraphs with any attention. He encloses his reply to Hodgson, which Herschel can keep or burn. He is amused and interested about Alick's meteors [Alexander Stewart Herschel] and he has been thinking of a scheme for observing them within a degree or less. He gives a sketch and description of potential equipment. He fears he will have little more to do with the eyepiece yet and thanks Herschel for remembering his Jovian birthday. In a postscript, he sees that Mr H has mistaken the use of the prismatic form of the plain glass reflector. He does not think Herschel ever invented the cementing of a tinted glass to his eye glass to prevent loss of light when Sun-gazing. 1 March 1864