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QUEEN VICTORIA RECEIVING THE NEWS OF HER ACCESSION TO THE THRONE, JUNE 20, 1837
From the picture by H. T. Wells, R.A., at Buckingham Palace
THE LETTERS OF
QUEEN VICTORIA
A SELECTION FROM HER MAJESTY'S
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE YEARS
1837 and 1861
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF
HIS MAJESTY THE KING
EDITED BY ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON, M.A.
AND VISCOUNT ESHER, G.C.V.O., K.C.B.
IN THREE VOLUMES
VOL. I.—1837-1843
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1908
Copyright in Great Britain and Dependencies, 1907, byH.M. The King.
In the United States by Messrs Longmans, Green & Co.
All rights reserved.
PREFACE
Entrusted by His Majesty the King with the duty of makinga selection from Queen Victoria's correspondence, we think itwell to describe briefly the nature of the documents which wehave been privileged to examine, as well as to indicate theprinciples which have guided us throughout. It has been atask of no ordinary difficulty. Her Majesty Queen Victoriadealt with her papers, from the first, in a most methodicalmanner; she formed the habit in ea