Excerpt from Reveries of Affection: In Memory of That Good and Beloved Prince, His Royal Highness the Late Prince Consort, Who Departed This Life on the Fourteenth Day of December, 1861 I received this morning from the gentleman 6 whom you entrusted it, the. Book which you desire to present to Her Majesty, and had the honour of placing it in Her Majesty's hands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.