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The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843)

CHAPTER VII
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I agree with this, as nothing enlarges the mind so much as travelling.

But Stockmar will best treat this affair verbally with you.

The young gentlemen wished to pay me another visit at the beginning of May, prior to their return to Bonn.
Nothing definite is, however, as yet settled about it.

On one thing you can rely, that it is my _great anxiety_ to see Albert a _very good_ and _distinguished young man_, and _no pains will be thought too much_ on my part if this end can be attained....
_Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ (_Undated._) Your Majesty will perceive by this box, which I received this morning but had not time to open, that Marshal Soult, Duke of Dalmatia,[13] has been appointed Ambassador to the Coronation....
[Footnote 13: Soult entered the French army in 1785, and became Marshal of France in 1804.

After distinguishing himself at Austerlitz in 1805, he was made Duke of Dalmatia in 1807.
Serving in the Peninsular War, he pursued Moore to Corunna, and became Commander-in-Chief in Spain in 1809.


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