DRAWING BY CHARLOTTE, EMPRESS OF MEXICO, DATED LACKEN, 1850.
A SHEET FROM THE COPY-BOOK OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER II. OF RUSSIA WHEN A BOY.
In the following year the Prince of Wales, aged twelve, thus addresses his absent tutor:—
Kew, July 22 1774.
My dear Lord,—I am glad to hear you are so much better, for when you come back again into England I hope your health will be then so strong that you may be then of more use to us than you would have been otherwise. There is a man come from Otaheite with Capn Furneaux. He is about five foot 10 high almost quite black, his nose is flat like that of the Negroes, his lips are purple. He came to the King and Queen in the habit of his Country which is made of the Cloth of which your Lordship has seen some. In my next letter to you I will give you a fuller description of him. I beg your Lordship will be so good as to give my best wishes to my Lady Holdernesse and my Lady Carmarthen and my compliments to my Lord Carmarthen
My dear Lord,
I am your Faithful Friend
George P.
The following letter of the Duke of Sussex, aged fourteen, and already at the University of Göttingen, came from the same source:—
Dear Dunbar,—I make a thousand excuses for not having wrote to you, but my time is so taken up that it is out of my power. I long very much to see you again. We pass our time very agreeably here as there are many pretty and agreeable Girls ... and you know the Company of Ladies is very agreeable. I hope you spend your time with pleasure. Pray write to me where you are and your Employment at present. I can't stay longer to write. Adieu!