You will, I am sure, dearest Uncle, feel the loss of this excellent creature; I cannot restrain my tears while writing this.

One great consolation I have, which is, that I have been the means of making her last days as happy as she could wish to be, after having lost what she loved most! ...

Poor _Mason_, our faithful coachman for so many years, is also dead.

These old servants cannot be replaced; and to see those whom one has known from one's birth drop off, one by one, is melancholy! You will think this letter a very sad one, but _I feel sad_....
_Queen Adelaide to Queen Victoria._ MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, _17th April 1838._ ...

I can well enter into all your feelings of regret at the death of one so truly attached and so faithful as dear old Louie had been to you from your infancy, and I quite understand your grief; yet I feel sure that you will also rejoice for her, that she has been relieved from her earthly sufferings.