| Collection | Victorian Papers, Main Series |
| Description | Queen Victoria thinks that Lord John Russell's letter to Lord Palmerston is excellent, and shows that her and Lord John's views upon British foreign policy entirely concur. She is sorry that the trouble of such an alteration should be added to Lord John's many anxieties, but feels sure that his insisting on a sound line of policy will save him and the country from greater troubles. Lord Palmerston has behaved about the draft like a naughty child; because he was to do what he did not like, he insisted on doing it in a way which he knows must be displeasing to Lord John and, the Queen suspects, particularly to herself. |