Mon cher Monsieur,--Je savais bien ce que vous senteriez pour nous et aussi pour vous-meme. Mon pere avait pour vous beaucoup d'amitie. En rangeant ses papiers, au milieu de toutes vos lettres, je trouve une foule de minutes de ses reponses; quelques-unes sont bien belles. Je ne vous parle pas du vide affreux de ma vie et de mon ame. Je sais que Dieu me donnera la force de le supporter en travaillant encore pour ceux qui m'ont quittee. Et le jour du revoir viendra. Mon pere est parti tout entier, lui-meme jusqu'au bout, dans la possession de son esprit et de son ame, plein de confiance en Dieu, nous recommandant de servir le pays qu'il avait supremement aime et dont les malheurs ont d'abord ebranle sa sante. Ma Pauline aussi ne s'etait jamais relevee de la guerre. Us sont ensemble et en paix. Adieu, mon cher Monsieur. Vous viendrez certainement a Paris cet hiver, et nous vous verrons. Je compte aller dans six semaines retrouver tout mon monde qui y est deja. Remerciez pour moi Mrs. Reeve et Hope, et croyez a tous mes meilleurs sentiments. GUIZOT DE WITT. _Journal_ _July_.--The building Foxholes was now going on. To Scotland, July 31st, having again taken Loch Gair. Also hired a 16-ton yacht--the 'Foam.' Got there on August 1st. John Binet came to Loch Gair, straight from Geneva. Mrs. Reeve wrote of him:--'It is his first visit to North Britain, and his enthusiasm--at 62--is quite delightful to witness. He travelled here from Paris without stopping, and though a good deal tired and half-starved, was ready for a walk that afternoon and for climbing hills the next morning.' I was engaged all the autumn at Loch Gair in revising the press of 'The Greville Memoirs' and in preparing a new edition of the 'Democracy in America.' We left Loch Gair on October 8th: and after visits to Abington, Ormiston and Minto, returned to London on the 26th. The publication of the first part of 'The Greville Memoirs' took place on October 17th. It excited far greater interest than I had expected, and the first edition sold very rapidly. Five editions were published in less than six months; the two first of 2,500 each, and the three last of 1,000; so that about 8,000 copies were sold. The Press, in the main, was highly favourable. On the 28th the Queen--though I believe she had not yet read the book, but only newspaper extracts--sent me a message by Helps to express her disapproval of it, on these grounds 1. It was disparaging to her family. 2. It tended to weaken the monarchy. 3. It proceeded from official persons. I begged Helps to reply, with my humble duty, that the book showed that, if the monarchy had really been endangered, it was by the depravity of George IV. and the absurdities of William IV.; but that under Her Majesty's reign it had become stronger than ever.