Princess Feodore's letter to Princess Victoria of Kent, dated April 16, 1836

Source:

The letters of Queen Victoria: a selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1831 and 1861: published by authority of His Majesty the King, edited by Arthur Christopher Benson and Viscount Reginald Baliol Brett Esher, 1907

https://archive.org/details/lettersofqueenvi01victuoft/page/46/mode/2up

Above: Princess Feodore of Leiningen, painted by Sir William Ross.

Above: Princess Victoria of Kent, future Queen of the United Kingdom and Ireland, artist unknown.

Above: Prince Ernest of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, lithograph by Royal de Lithographie à Bruxelles.

Above: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, lithograph by Royal de Lithographie à Bruxelles.

The letter:

STUTTGART, 16th April 1836.

... You will like our two Coburg cousins also, I think; they are more manly than I think the two others are, after the description. I am very fond of them both. Ernest is my favourite, although Albert is much handsomer, and cleverer too, but Ernest is so honest and good-natured. I shall be very curious to hear your opinion upon them. ...