MARY ADELAIDE
(Duchess of Teck, 1833-1897, Queen Mary's Mother)
Autograph letter signed to 'My Dear Duke,
thanking him for the "Craw fish which my mother feasted upon, as we were, unluckily, away all last week, having only returned from ... yesterday. May I indulge the hope that in the course of the coming fortnight, you may be so very kindly disposed as to repeat your gift as I do not dare to eat craw fish by proxy? We leave home again on the 20th for a few days ... with repeated gratitude for your kind attention ...", 2 sides 8vo, White Lodge, Richmond Park headed paper, 6th August
Item Date:
1872
Stock No:
41056
£150
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MARY ADELAIDE
(Duchess of Teck, 1833-1897, Queen Mary's Mother)
Fine cabinet gelatin silver print photo by Alexander Bassano, signed under the image
showing her in semi profile, wearing a dark coloured dress with a ruffled skirt, white ruffled collar and cuffs, and a hat secured with a large bow tied under her chin. Her right hand rests on a bamboo chair back, her left hand holds a parasol and handbag. The portrait is set against a painted fauna backdrop, 6½" x 4¼", no place, no date but circa
Item Date:
1880
Stock No:
41005
£275
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[MARY ADELAIDE
(Duchess of Teck, 1833-1897, Queen Mary's Mother)]
Account of her life from 'The Morning Post'
occupying most of page 7, stressing the "naturalness" she shared with her husband, her close ties with Kew and Richmond, where she knew "nearly every cottage", and including the Duke's brief but touching telegram to the Mayor, her work with Hospitals and the Needlework Guild, and the response round the country following her unexpected death, conjugate pages 5-8 of this issue, 26" x 21", London, 28th October,
folded, a few letters rubbed at folds (easily supplied), otherwise in good condition
Item Date:
1897
Stock No:
53061
£45
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MARY ADELAIDE
(Duchess of Teck, 1833-1897, Queen Mary's Mother)
Autograph letter signed to Canon Edgar Sheppard, 1845-1921,
sub-dean of the Chapels Royal, about the arrangements for the confirmation on Thursday 24th March by the Bishop of St Albans of her second son Prince Francis, (1870-1910, Major in the 1st Dragoons, served in the Sudan and South Africa), suggesting 1 o'clock, "please write me a line at St. James' which will be called for later in the day", she hopes "you quite saw my difficulty as regards the May Bazaar, scarcely a week passes without my declining one or more applications", she cannot do "a second day unless for a National object or one I am immediately connected with", 4 sides 6" x 4", no place, 1st March
tiny hole in blank portion
Item Date:
1887
Stock No:
53698
£75
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MARY ADELAIDE
(Duchess of Teck, 1833-1897, Queen Mary's Mother)
Autograph Letter Signed to Colonel Ellis,
asking him to "arrange with Evans, to see me on Wednesday morng. between 11 and 12½., or on Friday any time between 11 & 2 and let me know", with further alternative days "at his own time. This being virtually the last week of the season I am terribly busy & have but little choix d'heures to give him - In frantic haste", 3 sides 8vo, Kensington Palace, 17th July
Item Date:
1882
Stock No:
56459
£95
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