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

CHAPTER X
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X)] [Pageheading: ILLNESS OF DUKE OF WELLINGTON] _Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ _2nd February 1841._ Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty.

Lord Melbourne will be happy to wait upon your Majesty on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, but he finds that there is to be a Cabinet dinner to-morrow.
Lord Melbourne will speak to Lord Palmerston about Lord John Russell.
Lord Melbourne does not see the name of the Archbishop of Canterbury as a subscriber to this "Parker" Society, and if your Majesty will give him leave, he will ask him about it before he gives your Majesty an answer.

It is in some degree a party measure, and levelled against these new Oxford doctrines.

The proposal is to republish the works of the older divines up to the time of the death of Queen Elizabeth.

Up to that period the doctrines of the Church of England were decidedly Calvinistic.


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