We have foreseen the case and treated it formerly.

The great thing would be to make no change, to keep Ministers and everything as it is, and to gain time; in this way _no one is hurt and no amour-propre blesse_.
For this reason I lean to your keeping, to begin with, Sir Herbert Taylor[44] for your _official_ secretary, though I am not quite _decided_ on the subject.

He knows the manner in which the _daily business_ is carried on; this is important.

I believe him, and have found him to be an honest man, that would do for State matters; it would not be required that he should be your _confidential_ adviser.
Now I conclude, and send you this letter through Stockmar.

My best regards to Lehzen.