Mama is tolerable well and am quite well.

Your affectionate Niece, VICTORIA.
_P.S._--I am very angry with you, Uncle, for you have never written to me once since you went, and that is a long while.
[Footnote 6: Princess Sophia, daughter of George III.] _Prince Leopold_[7] _to the Princess Victoria._ PARIS, _20th April 1829._ MY DEAREST LOVE,--Though in a few days I hope to have the happiness of seeing you, still I wish to recall myself even before that time to your recollection, and to tell you how delighted I shall be to embrace my dearest little child.

I have travelled far over the world and shall be able to give you some curious information about various matters.
Stockmar, who was very ill, and whom I despaired of seeing here, did arrive before yesterday,[8] and you may guess what pleasure it gave me.

Now I will conclude; _au revoir_, and let me find you grown, blooming, and kind to your old and faithful Uncle, LEOPOLD.
[Footnote 7: Afterwards King of the Belgians.] [Footnote 8: I.e._avant hier_.] [Pageheading: BIRTHDAY LETTERS] _The Princess Hohenlohe[9] to the Princess Victoria._ [_May 1829._] If I had wings and could fly like a bird, I should fly in at your window like the little robin to-day, and wish you many very happy returns of the 24th, and tell you how I love you, dearest sister, and how often I think of you and long to see you.

I think if I were once with you again I could not leave you so soon.