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X, 'Stockmar and Melbourne')] [Pageheading: MELBOURNE'S REPLY] _Viscount Melbourne to Baron Stockmar._ _24th November 1841._ (_Half-past 10_ P.M.) MY DEAR BARON,--I have just received your letter; I think it unnecessary to detain your messenger.

I will write to you upon the subject and send it through Anson.

Yours faithfully, MELBOURNE.
[Pageheading: THE HEIR APPARENT] _Queen Victoria to the King of the Belgians._ BUCKINGHAM PALACE, _29th November 1841._ MY DEAREST UNCLE,--I have to thank you for four most kind letters, of the 4th, 6th, 19th and 26th; the last I received yesterday.

I would have written sooner, had I not been a little bilious, which made me very low, and not in spirits to write.