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Collection	Victorian Papers, Main Series
Reference	VIC/MAIN/F/9/6
Record Type	Correspondence
Title	Draft letter from Prince Albert to Lord John Russell
Date	17 August 1851
Writer	Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince
Addressee	Russell, John, Lord; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Description	Draft letter from Prince Albert to Lord John Russell acknowledging receipt of his memorandum of 12 August and returning both his, and the Queen's observations. He writes that the Queen agrees a new scheme of total reform would be too disruptive and also that a mixture of boroughs, large and small, are required to maintain balance. Prince Albert believes that suffrage ought to be considered a privilege rather than a right and that if universal suffrage was granted the onus would be on the ruling class to prove people unfit to vote. Both he and the Queen request that Russell provide statistics to compare the status quo with the scheme being proposed.
Place Of Writing	Osborne
Language	English
Extent	1 document (9 pages)
Physical Description	Loose manuscript paper
Access Conditions	Available in surrogate form only
Related Material	For related material see VIC/MAIN/F/9/4.
Digitisation Notes	These papers are available online within "Prince Albert: His Life and Legacy"
URL	https://albert.rct.uk
Level	Item

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