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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FRANCIS I STEPHEN
(1708-1765, Duke of Lorraine, 1729-1737, husband, 1736, of Maria Theresia of Austria, from 1737 Grand Duke of Tuscany and from 1745 Holy Roman Emperor)
Autograph Note Signed 'Francois'
in his somewhat phonetic French, with transcription and translation, to an unnamed minister or secretary, saying "Send me these 2 letters when you have read them. It [sic] contains nothing of much interest beyond the lack of forage", 1 side folio, no place, no date, circa
(Transcription)
renvoye moy ces: 2: letre quant vous les ave lu elle ne contient rien de fort enteresan que le manque de fourage je suis francois.
(Translation)
Send me back these 2 letters when you have read them. It [sic] contains nothing of much interest beyond the lack of forage. I am Francis
Item Date:
1735
Stock No:
56298
£375
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