Footnote 38: Victor Hugo (1802-1885) had founded the journal, L'Evénement, in 1848: he was exiled in 1851, and published Napoléon le Petit in Belgium. After the fall of the Empire he returned to France, and in 1877 published his Histoire d'un Crime.
Queen Victoria to the Earl of Derby.
Osborne, 26th August 1852.
The Queen has been considering the subject of the vacant Garter, and the names which Lord Derby proposed to her. She is of opinion that it would not be advisable on the whole to give the Garter to Lord Londonderry; that the Duke of Northumberland has by far the strongest claim to this distinction. At the same time, the Queen would have no objection to bestow it on Lord Lonsdale, if this is desirable, in order to facilitate any Ministerial arrangements which Lord Derby may have in contemplation.
F.M. The Duke of Wellington, K.G.
From a miniature at Apsley House
To face p. 392, Vol. II.