The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-29
ga GOOD LITTLE CREATURE"
A Picture Of the Present Queen Of Rnglans
when Young.
cincinnati Enquirer

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Mrs. Jameson numbered among her friends
the Brownings, Joanna Baillie, Miss Marti-
neau, Carlyle, Ottilie Won Goethe, our own
Irving, Miss Sedgwick, with whom she was
in the strongest sympathy, Barry Cornwall,
Thackeray and Schlegel, and the life of her,
tiers and notes which passed between them
and herself. Two or three passages with ref
erence to Queen Victoria's coronation and
first years as Queen have special interest as
revelation both OF the Queen character when
she first came to the throne, and of the ten
her subjects regarded the young sovereign.
Writing OF the coronation, In letter to Miss
Sedgwick, Mrs. Jameson said:
AS to the Queen, poor child, she went
returned. looking pale and tremulous =
even Carlyle, who was standing near me,
uttered with emotion a blessing on her head,
and he, you know, thinks kings and queens
rather superfiuous. ALI the rest, IL you feel
any curiosity on the subject, you will learn in
not yet reached them seems to have made a
strong impression. The premier baron, old
Lord Role, Is more than eighty-five, and on
ascending the steps OF the throne to do hon.
The Queen, forgetting. her dignity and her
royal state, started from her throne and
stretched out both her hands to help him.
This little action, against all rules OF court
etiquette, called down thunder OF ap-
In another letter to Miss Sedgwick we read
OF the young Queen:
"She seems to be really right-hearted,
thoroughly good little creature. Spring Ri ce
told friend OF mine that he once carried her
about managing so as to give her Majesty
less trouble. She looked up from her paper
and said quietly: Pray never let me hear
those words again; never mention the word
trouble. Only tell me how the thing Is to be
done, and to be done rightly, and will do it
II can I do not know whether these little
anecdotes will interest you, but surely though
you are SO democratical, you will feel for this
poor little woman, placed In such an awful
position in such awful times"
Mrs. Jameson was living at Windsor at the
time, and appears to have been enchanted
with the memories Of the place. and not less
with the young Queen In the castle. Writing
In August, 1888, to Miss Sedgwick she said !:
Among the. visions to which, childlike, I
sometimes yield up my fancy when alone /
look up to those vast towers OF our Kings, Is
ono especially, Of having you here at Wind
sor. To come down rs strangers do, to take
a hasty dinner and see over the state rooms
and pictures, is not to be thought OF. Wind
sor is like nothing but itself In tho world.
And though you are Democrat tho gods
have made you poetical Imagine our pretty
young Queen, with all her courtly SUITE pour
ing out OF the great gates OF the castle on
most Deautllul horses, ana sweeping through
the avenues and glades OF the forest here, the
Windsor Forest, which is the classic ground
Of our Shakespeare as well as Of our Edwards
and Henrys. 1t sounds we'll, does it not2 And
really it is a most splendid sight. As to the
Queen, she really plays the part to admira-
ton, poor little girl as Carlyle calls her. 1
never look at her but with an interest In
which some pity is blended. She is after all
but pageant an anomaly; and with so
much OF Kindness OF heart and sensibility,
what 10 to become Of hers A great many an
ecdotes OF her interieur, which reach me pri-
vately, give me the highest idea of her heart
md sense"