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
£125
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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
£125
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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
£125
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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)
Christmas card in colour, with autograph note signed, to Sir Dominic Colnaghi,
(1834-1908, Consul General in Florence 1872-1896), folding in three, wishing him joy this Christmas-Tide "& through the glad New Year!", showing two young girls tripping hand in hand above the legend 'Happiness', the card edged in forget-me-nots cut to shape, 4½" x 3¼", no place, 1892 -
Item Date:
1893
Stock No:
51424
£100
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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)
Fine Cabinet Portrait Photograph, Signed in the light upper background
of this very good image, by Carl Jagerspacher of Gmunden, Upper Austria, showing her full length, three quarter face, in a dark but attractive figured lace dress with long full skirt of three flounces of dog-tooth design, and hat and gloves, 7½" x 5", no place, no date, circa
tiny rubbing in right margin, barely touching flourish of signature
Item Date:
1885
Stock No:
55181
£250
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