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- instructions to Lord Palmerston, [178];
- letter to Lord John Russell on the formation of a Coalition Government, [203];
- her view of the Coalition Ministry, [208];
- reply to letter from the Czar on the eve of the Crimean War, [230];
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- described by Napoleon, [30], [50];
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