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

CHAPTER VII
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Charlotte afterwards came with old Queen Charlotte.

How distant all this already, but still how present to one's memory.
The portrait of your Aunt and Leopold is nicely done.

Don Leopoldo is like, and has at times even a more intelligent look; he would amuse you--he is very original and very sly.

I often call him the little tyrant, because nobody knows so well _de faire aller le monde_....

My most beloved Victoria, your devoted Uncle, LEOPOLD R.
[Footnote 46: Sir Hamilton Seymour, Minister at Brussels.] INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO CHAPTER VII.
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THE chief political event of the year (1839) at home arose out of the troubles in Jamaica.


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