God bless you! Ever, my dear child, your very devoted Uncle and Friend, LEOPOLD R.
[Footnote 5: Leading characters in _The Heiress of Bruges_, by Grattan.] _The Princess Victoria to the King of the Belgians._ _9th August 1836._ MY BELOVED UNCLE,-- ...

I was sure you would be very much pleased with Ernest and Albert as soon as you knew them more; there cannot be two more good and sensible young men than they are.

Pray, dear Uncle, say everything most kind from me to them.
We go to Buxted[6] to-morrow morning, and stay there till next Monday.
All the gaieties are now over.

We took leave of the Opera on Saturday, and a most brilliant conclusion to the season it was.

Yesterday I took my farewell lesson with Lablache,[7] which I was very sorry to do.