Queen Victoria to Sir Charles Wood

Buckingham Palace, 4th May 1860.

The Queen returns these papers. She wishes the thanks to Civil Servants to be given in all cases, where to be given by the Home Government, in her own name. The Bath or Knighthood comes directly from the Sovereign, and so should the thanks; the Civil Servants are the Queen's servants, and not the servants of the Government. The Hindoo address is very striking and gratifying as a symptom. Presuming that Sir Charles does not want the copy back again, the Queen has kept it.

Footnote 23: The copy of this address does not seem to have been preserved.