I like Mrs.Hutchinson's Life of her husband[13] only _comme cela_; she is so dreadfully violent.

She and Clarendon are so totally opposite, that it is quite absurd, and I only believe the _juste milieu_....
Your speech interested me very much; it is very fine indeed; you wrote it yourself, did you not?
Belgium is indeed the happiest country in the world, and it is _all, all_ owing to your _great care_ and _kindness_.

"Nous etions des enfans perdus," General Goblet[14] said to me at Claremont, "quand le Roi est venu nous sauver." And so it is....
Pray, dear Uncle, say everything most kind from me to Ernest and Albert, and believe me, always, your affectionate Niece, VICTORIA.
Pray, dear Uncle, is the report of the King of Naples' marriage to the Archduchess Theresa true?
I hear the king has behaved uncommonly well at Naples during the cholera panic.

I enclose the measure of my finger.
[Footnote 13: The regicide, Colonel Hutchinson's, fame rests more on his wife's commemoration of him than on his own exploits.

She was the daughter of Sir Allen Apsley, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, and highly educated.