The Letters of Queen Victoria

This nine-volume selection from the letters of Queen Victoria with ancillary material was commissioned by her son Edward VII and published between 1907 and 1932 with a gap of almost twenty years between the third and fourth volumes. The editor of the ''Second Series'' which covers the years from 1862 to 1885 was George Earle Buckle (18541935) a historian and former editor of The Times who continued the editorial policy of his predecessors but who needed to tread carefully as many of the people mentioned in documents of the second part of Queen Victoria''s reign were still alive when Volumes 46 were published between 1926 and 1928. Volume 4 dealing with 18629 begins with the period of mourning after Prince Albert''s death and includes the marriage of the Prince of Wales and the death of the Queen''s uncle and mentor Leopold I of Belgium.