And even when in my mind I am disposed to accede, still I always keep the papers with me some little time before I return them.

The best mode for you will be, that each Minister should bring his box with him, and when he submits to you the papers, _explain them to you_.

Then you will keep the papers, either to think yourself upon it or to consult somebody, and either return them the next time you see the Minister to whom they belong, or send them to him.

Good habits formed _now_ may for ever afterwards be kept up, and will become so natural to you that you will not find them at all fatiguing.
_Queen Victoria to Viscount Melbourne._ KENSINGTON PALACE, _29th June 1837._ The Queen has received Lord Melbourne's communication, and thinks, as Prince Ernest of Hesse goes to the funeral, it would be proper the Prince of Leiningen should do just the same.

The Queen requests that Lord Melbourne will be so good as to take care that the Prince of Leiningen is informed as to the proper dress he ought to wear on the occasion.
Lord Albemarle mentioned yesterday to the Queen, that all the ladies' saddle-horses, including the Queen-Dowager's own favourite horses, belonged to the Queen; but it strikes her that it would be well if the Queen was to give the Queen-Dowager the choice of two or three of her own horses, and that she might keep them.