MARY ADELAIDE
(Duchess of Teck, 1833-1897, Queen Mary's Mother)
Autograph letter signed to 'Dearest Mrs Bevan',
(Maria, née Trotter, d. 1903, third wife (1875) of Francis Augustus Bevan, 1840-1919, the first chairman of Barclays Bank), explaining her anxiety, reinforced by a confidential letter "addressed to Mr Hood, who is abroad", about the "Watercress and Flower Girls' Mission", in that "a variety of other agencies" such as the "Rescue of homeless waif Children ... and so forth", having "nothing in common with the Mission as originally founded", are due to benefit from the Exhibition on Tuesday, it was the "Watercress & Flower Girls and Flower Makers whose exhibits at the Evening Fête, last year, at the Royal Botanic so took my fancy that my sympathies were enlisted", she asks Mr & Mrs Bevan to insist on the one cause if "I am to open it on Tuesday", ending "Very Affectionately Your's", embossed crowned monogram, 6 sides 8vo black-edged, White Lodge, Richmond Park, 7th March
Item Date:
1896
Stock No:
53072
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MARY ADELAIDE
(Duchess of Teck, 1833-1897, Queen Mary's Mother)
Autograph letter signed to 'Dearest Mrs Bevan',
(Maria, née Trotter, d. 1903, third wife (1875) of Francis Augustus Bevan, 1840-1919, the first chairman of Barclays Bank), apologizing "for not having thanked you in writing or de vive voix ... for your most kind contribution to the Saturday Lifeboat Institution Fund. Please attribute my negligence to the surfeit of Bazaars! ... I accomplished my visit to Windsor most successfully and afterwards met the Prince and Princess of Wales at the West London Hospital ... but ... spent the rest of the day on the sofa", embossed crowned monogram, 3 sides 8vo, White Lodge, Richmond Park, 22nd May
Item Date:
1896
Stock No:
53073
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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 "I think I may safely lay out a further sum, given me for our Needlework Guild, on the very useful and remarkably cheap articles of clothing in your stall, as I am thus helping 2 Charities", especially on clothes for "crèches like Mr Holland's", and on two sorts of grey wool from "Ly. Lilias Sherbrooke's stall ... My May", Queen Mary, "will tomorrow D.V. leave at your door the promised pamphlet and papers", and hoping "you will not be too tired from your kind exertions", embossed crowned monogram, 4 sides 8vo black-edged, White Lodge, Richmond Park, 15th March
Item Date:
1886
Stock No:
53062
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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), 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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