Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-22
QUEEN VICTORIA.
Her MajeSty's Letter About the
Life Of the Royal Family.
How the Virgin Queen Announced Her
Ascent to the Throne and Her
Marriage With Albert.
Notes 10 the President About the Baby Prince
of Wales, and Albert Edwards Letter
Describing His Fathers Death.
TCopyrighted, 1891


Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, June Il.-The great de-
partments of Washington have hidden
away in their musty records the romances
OF the greatest men of the United States.
There is a tradition that some very spicy
love letters of George Washington are
hidden away Ia the state department
Others of the records contain references
to the troubles which existed at the time
that Peggy O'Neill, the handsome
daughter of the Washington tavern
keeper, married Mai. Eaton, Jackson s
secretary of war, and set Washington
society by the ears, and still others de-
scribe the troubles which Alexander
Hamilton underwent through the per-
secution of the pretty Mrs. Reynolds.
By all odds the most interesting volumes
of love and marriage, however, found in
these departments are those which con-
tain the letters of kings and queers de-
scribing their marriages and i'll glowing
terms picturing their gratitude TO heaven
for the birth OF prince or princess.
According TO the court etiquette of
Europe, whenever son or daughter is
born TO q ruler letter Is sent to the state
department. These letters are carefully
fled. They are bound in great morocco
covered books and they constitute the
most valuable autograph collection of the
Tinted states. In hem the handwrit-
ings of the kings of the earth are hud-
dled together AMI the pens Of queens and
princes lie side by side. Many OF the
pages are bnrdered with black, ANNOUNCE
ing the death of ruler, but such an
announcement is always accompanied by
the proclamation of the rise Of another
10 the throne, and the old rule, the king
is dead, long live the king, ever holds
good.
1t takes one large volume to contain
the court letters of Great Britain, and
there aru many autographs of Queen
Victoria scattered through the pages.
The first lesson she writes was penned
when, Mt sweet eighteen, she stepped
out of private life into the throne of the
greatest government on the face OF the
globe. Her letter announcing her ascent
Is written on blue foolscap paper with
narrow black border in honor of the
death of William ". The signature is
boldly penned in schoolgirl hand, and
she evidently wrote it very carefully.
The ink is rs black to-day as when it
reached the state department under the
administration of President Van Buren,,
and the Endorsement of the great Minis
ter PalmerstOu appears in the same ink
below The letter reads:
''Vietoria. by the Grace of God Queen
OF the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, Defender of the Faith,
etc. etc. etc. to the President of the
United States of America. Sendeth
greeting.
"OUR COOP FRIEND-It is with the
deepest affliction that we announce
10 you the decease of our most
honored and beloved uncle, His
late Majesty King William ",
Of blessed memory, whom if pleaseth
God 10 call from this world on the morn !
ing of the goth inst, PIP o. clock, in the |
seventy second year of his age, and the |
seventh of his reign. While we thus |
communicate TO you the earliest intelli- !
gence OF this mournful event, we feel |
convinced that you VIII participate in |
our own and the public grief for the loss |
of sovereign whose memory Is justly |
dear to his family and TO his subjects of |
every class. In acquainting you at the |
same time with our accession to the |
throne of this kingdom, We cannot omit |
TO assure you that it win be our most |
earnest desire to cultivate and maintain |
the relations Of friendship and good I'M
Outstanding which so happily subsist be-
tween the two countries; and that it will
always afford us further opportunities of
proving the interest we take in the well
fare and prosperity Os the United States,
and so we recommend you to the protec-
ton of the Almighty.
"Given at our court at KensingtOn, the
23d day of June, in the year Of our Lord !
1887, and the first year of our reign.
Your good friend, VICTORIA, r. -
. Victoria 5 next letter is on white pa
rer II gives the credentials of Henry
stephen Fox as minister to America and