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[Illustration: H.M. QUEEN VICTORIA, 1843
From the picture by F. Winterhalter at Windsor Castle
_Frontispiece, Vol. II._]




  THE LETTERS OF
  QUEEN VICTORIA

  A SELECTION FROM HER MAJESTY'S
  CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE YEARS
  1837 AND 1861

  PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF
  HIS MAJESTY THE KING

  EDITED BY ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON, M.A.
  AND VISCOUNT ESHER, G.C.V.O., K.C.B.

  IN THREE VOLUMES

  VOL. II.--1844-1853

  LONDON
  JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
  1908




  _Copyright in Great Britain and Dependencies, 1907, by_
  H.M. THE KING.

  _In the United States by_ Messrs LONGMANS, GREEN & CO.
  _All rights reserved_.




TABLE OF CONTENTS


  CHAPTER XIII

  1844                                                      PAGES

    Duc de Bordeaux--Hanoverian Orders--Domestic happiness--Death
    of the Duke of Coburg--Lord Melbourne on old age--Recall
    of Lor