FRANCIS
(1st Duke of Teck, 1837-1900, father of Queen Mary)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Dear Gino',
congratulating him on his engagement and for "announcing the happy event to yr. old Friends who however far and distant take great interest in all that concerns their Friends in the fair South", he passes over "anything that at present, may mar or be a discord in yr. happiness. Most likely it will all come right in the end", he heard of "your engagement to Miss Bailey through Mrs Palmer", he explains that "For about 6 weeks I was very suffering with
Lumbago & rheumatism ... could not even write. My going to the Drawing room before I was well enough, made it even worse", they are "going to Sandringham this week" and then will "settle in London for the rest of the Season. Politics run high & upset ones digestion. I wish superannuated Gladstone wld. leave to others, the task of benefiting any of H.M.'s subjects", embossed crowned 'FT', 4 sides 8vo black edged, White Lodge, Richmond Park, 19th April
a little browned without loss
Item Date:
1886
Stock No:
54002
£165
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FRANCIS
(1st Duke of Teck, 1837-1900, father of Queen Mary)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Dear Gino',
saying "I cannot tell how terribly we felt your dear Sister's death ... What a shock ... we can well measure by what it was to us", recalling seeing her "once more, at Cannes ... It was most kind & good of you, to have at once thought of us, her true friends ... We return to England on the 2d. of July, our long stay on the Continent ... has done our Daughter a World of good", and sending "my kindest regards to Mrs Light and my love, to the I Cedri", embossed crowned 'FT', 4 sides 8vo black edged, Ludwigsburg, Württemberg, 21st June
closed tears in horizontal folds without loss
Item Date:
1892
Stock No:
54005
£165
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FRANCIS
(1st Duke of Teck, 1837-1900, father of Queen Mary)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Mr Johnasson' [sic],
expressing his "very best thanks" for "Mr. S. Liddle's song, which we shall try, if not to sing, to play on the Piano", and for "the Dinner ... and the charming evening", 2 sides 8vo, White Lodge, Richmond Park, 28th June
Item Date:
1896
Stock No:
54006
£95
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FRANCIS
(1st Duke of Teck, 1837-1900, father of Queen Mary)
Autograph Letter Signed to Sir James Linton,
(1840-1916, 1st President of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours), explaining that he leaves "here on my return to England on Monday next, to meet Princess Mary at Easton" (in Suffolk, the Duchess of Hamilton's), so "cannot accept yr. kind invitation to visit the Exhibition on Tuesday the 27th", but trusts "to ... do so later on", embossed crowned 'FT', 2 sides 8vo black edged, Royal Palace, Stuttgart, 23rd October
Item Date:
1891
Stock No:
54004
£125
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FRANCIS
(Duke of Teck, 1837-1900, father of Queen Mary)
Christmas card with autograph note signed, to Sir Dominic Colnaghi,
(1834-1908, Consul General in Florence 1872-1896), sending "heartfelt good wishes & thanks for your kind remembrance of me from Yr. sincerely attached Teck", with a finely blind embossed rococo design and shaped edges, surrounding a black and white toned picture of a lake with pine trees, no place, 30th December
Item Date:
1894
Stock No:
51425
£75
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