The General has since been very urgent with me to publish! And-to make a long story short-I have been, what many people will think, weak enough to agree to his wish! Of course, I am nervous about it; but I am somewhat encouraged by your Royal Highness's kind permission to dedicate it to you. In fact it can have no interest, except in so far as it is connected with your Royal Highnesses. I know well, dear Princess, how indulgent your Royal Highness and the Prince of Wales will be to it; and I do hope that it may at least serve to recall to you and the Prince the recollection of many pleasant scenes and events, and of what was to me, owing entirely to both your Royal Highnesses' invariable kindness to me, a most happy time. I remain Your Royal Highness's Most devoted and affectionately attached Servant, Marlborough House, December 4, 1869. THERESA GREY. HAVING obtained leave from the Princess to spend the summer with my parents in Sweden, I sailed in the Hero from Hull, for Gottenburg, on Saturday morning, the 18th of July, 1868. General and Mrs. Grey, with two daughters, had promised to come a fortnight later to pay me a visit at my own home, which promise was fulfilled, and a very happy seven weeks we had all together at Elghammar. On the 14th of September they left it to return to England, it being my intention, when they left, to follow in about three weeks; and after a little time spent with my eldest brother, lately appointed Swedish Minister at Copenhagen, to return to England towards the end of October. These plans were, however, all upset by a letter from the Princess, in which she told me that she wished me to accompany her on the tour she projected with the Prince of Wales to the East, and to join her at Copenhagen in the beginning of January ; and that in the meantime I might remain quietly— which she knew would be a pleasure to me—with my father and mother in Sweden. This was too tempting an offer not to be eagerly embraced, and accordingly, after six months spent happily with my dear parents, I left Stockholm at 6 P. M. on the 10th of January, to join her Royal Highness at Copenhagen. At five o'clock I went to say good-by once more to my dear mother and brother, who were neither of them well enough to come to the station, to which my father and many friends accompanied me to see me off. The weather was dull, but very mild (8° Cent. above o); and being 17° in the railway-carriage, all the precautions against cold, of fur cloaks and wrappers, were quite unnecessary. At II P.M. I arrived |