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
Above: Princess Victoria of Kent, future Queen of the United Kingdom and Ireland, painted by Henry Collen.
Above: Leopold, King of the Belgians, drawn by Sir George Hayter.
The letter:
CLAREMONT, 5th December 1836.
MY DEAREST UNCLE, — ... I have begun since a few days Lord Clive's Life, by Sir John Malcolm, which is very interesting, as it gives much insight into the affairs of India, over parts of which, I fear, it would be well to through a veil. I am reading it by myself, et je vous le recommande. ...
Note: "et je vous le recommande" = "and I recommend it to you."
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