Letter from John Herschel, Badgaon, to [Mary Cornwallis Herschel] Two violent storms have convinced him to take down the instrument and wait for better conditions. He may put it back up in two days, but otherwise he will keep waiting. The observatory stood up well to wind the night before but he finds the weather perplexing. He has her letters of 7th and 10th April, and concurs with her decision to go down on the 17th, hoping that she has reached Bangalore. He is reading the Mail steadily and the Pall Mall [Gazette]. He thanks her for two copies of 'Punch'. He is shooting at antelope without success. 16 April 1872