grudges every hour, and the yearning is terrible.

Even in his last illness he showed an anxious feeling, as if he feared
I might resign, saying that I knew what an interest it had been to
him, how he had liked hearing of the Queen and her family. He spoke
very late in life of your Majesty's constant kindness. This feeling
and early associations made him take a great interest in the Princess
Royal's marriage, which did not leave him. If it ever crossed your
Majesty--if your Majesty should ever feel that I might have been
devoted, if I had had but one service, pray believe that he took the
greatest pleasure and pride in that other great service; and that
therefore he really felt it best it should be so.

Since I have written this I have received your Majesty's most kind
letter--and the precious gift of the photograph so wonderfully like,
and rendering exactly that most kind and loving countenance. I shall
like much sending one to your Majesty of my dearest husband.

I repeat to myself the precious word that I am dear to your Majesty
again and again; and that my love to your Majesty was returned. How
often I shall think of this in my altered life, in my solitude of
heart! The admiration I have ever felt for the Prince has been one
of the great pleasures of my life; that he should be your Majesty's
husband, a constant thankfulness. I feel I owe him much, and that
great approbation and admiration are not barren feelings. I have the
honour to remain, Madam, your Majesty's devoted Subject,

HARRIET SUTHERLAND.

I fear I have written worse than usual--I can hardly see to do
so--weak eyes and tears.

[Footnote 19: The Duke of Sutherland had died in the preceding
February.]

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_Viscount Palmerston to Queen Victoria._

PICCADILLY, _8th July 1861_.

Viscount Palmerston presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and begs
to state that Lord Elcho[20] this afternoon moved a Resolution that
the new Foreign Office should not be built in the Palladian style. Mr
Charles Buxton seconded the Motion. Mr Cowper[21] opposed it, stating
reasons for preferring the Italian style to the Gothic. Mr Layard was
for neither, but seemed to wish that somebody would invent a new style
of architecture. Mr Tite,[22] the architect, was strongly for the
Italian style; Lord John Manners, swayed by erroneous views in
religion and taste, was enthusiastic for Gothic;[23] Mr Dudley
Fortescue confided in a low v