I wish I had seen your performance too.

Your most affectionate Sister, FEODORE.
[Footnote 9: The Princess Feodore of Leiningen, the Queen's half-sister, had married, in January 1828, the Prince (Ernest) of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.] _The Duchess of Clarence to the Princess Victoria._ BUSHEY PARK, _14th August 1829._ A thousand thanks to you, dear Victoria, for your very nice and well-written letter full of good wishes, which I had the pleasure to receive yesterday; and many thanks more for the pretty gifts your dear Mamma has sent me in your name.

I wore them last night for your sake, dearest child, and thought of you _very often_.
It gives me great satisfaction to hear that you are enjoying the sea air and like the place which you now occupy.

I wish I could pay your Mamma a visit there and see you again, my dear little niece, for I long to have that pleasure, and must resign myself at being deprived of it some time longer.

Your Uncle desires to be most kindly remembered to you, and hopes to receive soon also a letter from you, of whom he is as fond as I am.