Your song (the bust has been mentioned before) is very fine; there is something touching in it which I like so much....
[Footnote 1: _I.e._ Premier.] [Pageheading: OPENING OF PARLIAMENT] _Queen Victoria to the Prince Albert._ BUCKINGHAM PALACE, _12th January 1840._ This letter will be handed you by Torrington personally.

I recommend you not to leave late, so as to make the journey without hurry.

I did not go to church to-day; the weather is very cold, and I have to be careful not to catch cold before the 16th, because I open Parliament in person.

_This is always a nervous proceeding, and the announcement of my marriage at the beginning of my speech is really a very nervous and awful affair for me.

I have never failed yet, and this is the sixth time that I have done it, and yet I am just as frightened as if I had never done it before.