The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 3, 1854-1861
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol. 3 is the last volume of the selection from the queen's correspondence between her accession and the death of Prince Albert, edited by Arthur Christopher Benson and Viscount Esher and published in 1907. It covers the years 1854 to 1861: the Crimean War and the queen's impatience with the conduct of it, the fall of the Aberdeen government and the ministries of Palmerston and Derby, the Indian Mutiny and the transfer of India to the Crown, the marriage of the Princess Royal to the heir of Prussia, the outbreak of the American Civil War and the Trent affair, and the illness and death of the Prince Consort in December 1861. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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