MARY ADELAIDE
(Duchess of Teck, 1833-1897, Queen Mary's Mother)
Autograph letter signed to Mrs Bevan
(Maria, née Trotter, d. 1903, third wife (1875) of Francis Augustus Bevan, 1840-1919, the first chairman of Barclays Bank), thanking her "for the admirable manner in which you ... executed my commission" for articles at the last bazaar, "Should you have any of the Irish work left ... I will gladly take some at cost price, for Lady Tankerville's sale ... in aid of a Hospital in Bethnal Green", she is "truly grateful ... to you for consenting to become a President of the London Needlework Guild ... in addition to your mass of other work. You have only to find 5 Vice Presidents (40 Associates)", thus limiting her correspondence "to 5 ladies", and hopes to explain more "at Lady Ashburton's meeting" today, embossed crowned monogram, 4 sides 8vo black-edged, White Lodge, Richmond Park, 31st March
Item Date:
1886
Stock No:
53063
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MARY ADELAIDE
(Duchess of Teck, 1833-1897, Queen Mary's Mother)
Autograph letter signed to Mrs Bevan
(Maria, née Trotter, d. 1903, third wife (1875) of Francis Augustus Bevan, 1840-1919, the first chairman of Barclays Bank), saying she quite understands why Mrs Bevan could not drive down to Coombe, (home near Kingston of Lady Wolverton, who started the Needlework Guild for good causes), thanking her for "so handsome a donation", asking her to accept as a memento of the bazaar "a book of Sacred Songs, illustrated by Lady Tankerville and Louisa, Lady Waterford" and whether to send it to "59 Princes Gate, or to Ludgrove" (near Cockfosters), "Your brother-in-law was terribly victimised by my sons ... to the tune of £15", over £600 was raised, embossed crowned monogram, 4 sides 8vo black-edged, White Lodge, Richmond Park, 19th April
Item Date:
1886
Stock No:
53064
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MARY ADELAIDE
(Duchess of Teck, 1833-1897, Queen Mary's Mother)
Autograph letter signed to Mrs Bevan
(Maria, née Trotter, d. 1903, third wife (1875) of Francis Augustus Bevan, 1840-1919, the first chairman of Barclays Bank), saying that "May and I shall be charmed to accept your invitation to 5 o'Clock tea ... if we may be allowed a ¼ of an hour's grace ... I shall be very pleased to see Augusta Maclagan again", wife of the future Archbishop of York, "and to have a quiet chat with you both", they are greatly refreshed by "5 weeks ... up at St. Moritz ... and the Italian lakes ... after all the fatigues of the Jubilee season", embossed crowned monogram, 4 sides 8vo, White Lodge, Richmond Park, 11th October
Item Date:
1887
Stock No:
53065
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MARY ADELAIDE
(Princess, 1833-1897, daughter of the 1st Duke of Cambridge, wife of the 1st Duke of Teck and mother of Queen Mary)
Autograph Letter Signed to the Hon. (later Sir) Spencer Ponsonby-Fane, 1824-1915,
Comptroller in the Lord Chamberlain's Department 1857-1901, Bath King of Arms, 1904-1915, saying "This is indeed bad news for us, who are already not overburdened with the world's wealth ... Kensington Palace had always continued to be a Royal, though not a Sovereign's residence ... I must trust to your kindly efforts to do the best for us with the agreeable Parish authorities", and asking him "to give the Treasury Officer your card", as "During the day we have now only a housemaid", who since an attempted break in "by the area ... would on no account let a stranger in", 4 sides 8vo. and envelope, White Lodge, Richmond Park, 4th March
Item Date:
1883
Stock No:
19838
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MARY ADELAIDE
(Princess, 1833-1897, daughter of the 1st Duke of Cambridge, wife of the 1st Duke of Teck and mother of Queen Mary)
Autograph Letter Signed to the Hon. (later Sir) Spencer Ponsonby-Fane, 1824-1915,
Comptroller in the Lord Chamberlain's Department 1857-1901, Bath King of Arms, 1904-1915, asking, as the Queen has "most graciously given the rooms, formerly occupied by my late dresser and housekeeper, Miss Frazer, to our old Nurse, Mrs. Girdlestone", if he can "have them painted & decorated", she would have written sooner "had I known that the Board of Works had made difficulties", 3 sides 8vo., White Lodge, Richmond Park, 4th March
envelope a little torn
Item Date:
1883
Stock No:
19841
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