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: Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, dowager queen of the United Kingdom and Hanover, painted by Sir William Ross.
Above: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Ireland, drawn by Sir Edwin Landseer.
The letter:
MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, 17th April 1838.
... I can well enter into all your feelings of regret at the death of one so truly attached and so faithful as dear old Louie had been to you from your infancy, and I quite understand your grief; yet I feel sure that you will also rejoice for her, that she has been relieved from her earthly sufferings. For her the change of existence was a happy one; good and pious as she was, we may trust that her state at present is one of felicity and bliss through the redeeming grace of our Saviour. ...
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