Letter from Bunsen to his wife, Palace of Bruhl: Wednesday, 13th August, 1845 - Yesterday, the whole party went to the uncovering of the statue of the pride of Bonn, Beethoven. Speeches were made and songs sung, in the open air, on the space before the Minster at Bonn ; and then the King, with the two Queens, and Prince Albert, drove to the house which the latter had occupied in his University years,—afterwards through the Avenue of Poppelsdorf, and back to Bruhl, where dinner followed, the first at which Queen Victoria had been present ; for on the preceding evening, owing to official mismanagement, neither her waiting-women nor her clothes arrived till after eleven o'clock !