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TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS

THE PRINCESS OF WALES.

ADAM,—I know not how sufficiently to thank

your Royal Highness for allowing me to dedicate my little book to you. It is another, added to the many kindnesses I have already received from you, and I am grateful from the bottom of my heart. Your Royal Highness can not be more surprised than I am myself at seeing my Journal in print!

You know how, and when it was written-that it was written from day to day, often under difficulties, as a record to myself of a very happy time, and which members of my family might perhaps like to see; but, most assuredly, with no view to publication. In fact, till last Saturday, when I returned home from Sweden, I had not the slightest idea of its being printed. I had left it with my brother-in-law, General Grey, when I went abroad last July, asking him merely to correct some of Swedish mistakes of grammy mar, in case I should wish to copy it out more fairly