PRINCESS BEATRICE AFTER THE DEATH OF HER SON MAURICE
BEATRICE
(Mary Victoria Feodore, 1857-1944, Princess, Daughter & Companion of Queen Victoria)
Autograph Letter Signed ‘Beatrice’ to Mary
saying she was “so touched at your thinking of writing to me about the loss of my beloved son & to thank you for all your words of sympathy. The thought that others are feeling for me does help keep on! This termination to 5 months of cruel anxiety, & how I shall miss that dear Boy, so full of life & brightness, & with such a brave unselfish nature. It is some consolation & a pride to think how nobly he had done his work, what a glorious death his was, & that he has gone to the grave regretted by all & leaving a bright example behind him. One can but bow one’s head to God’s will & pray to be given the strength to bear up bravely. I have still 2 dear sons left me, & how many there are who have lost their only ones...”, 2 sides 8vo., Kensington Palace headed mourning paper, 13th November
Item Date:
1914
Stock No:
43854
£275
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BEATRICE
(Mary Victoria Feodore, 1857-1944, Princess, Daughter & Companion of Queen Victoria, wife of Henry of Battenburg)
Christmas card signed to “Dear Mrs Crozier”
on a hand printed calligraphic “quotation from the King’s Speech Christmas 1939” - a part of the poem “God Knows” starting “And I said to the man / who stood at the gate / of the year; Give me a / light that I may tread safely into the unknown!...” with an Autograph note Signed by the Princess “With Christmas greetings & best wishes for her welfare & safety in these terrible times...”, 1 side 6” x 3½”, no place, Christmas
Item Date:
1939
Stock No:
43852
£225
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BURNE-JONES
(Sir Edward, 1833-1898, Pre-Raphaelite Painter)
Second page of an Autograph Letter Signed in full to an unknown correspondent
saying that he “be certainly this coming Sunday at home till 5 - at 1½ we lunch and that is the peacefullest time, will you come? this Sunday or the next... ”, 1 side 8vo., The Grange, West Kensington headed paper, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43816
£250
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COLENSO
(Harriette Emily, 1847-1932, Christian Missionary in Southern Africa)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Shearing
saying that she is “not careless of your kind invitation to South Place Institution this evening, but the hoarseness which plagued me somewhat last Monday, obliges me to be careful & this sudden chill in the weather has not improved matters. I hoped till noon today that I might be able to come, but must give it up...”, 1 side 8vo., 49 Clifton Hill, Abbey Road, N.W, 3rd October
Item Date:
1892
Stock No:
43847
£125
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CROMER
(Sir Evelyn Baring, 1841-1917, Administrator in Egypt and India, from 1901 1st Earl)
Autograph Letter Signed ‘E. Baring’ to Mr Wylde
saying that he has received his letter “enclosing a letter to Mr Sturges, apparently intended for publication, which you ask me to return or to forward as I think best. If I were to forward a letter of this sort it would certainly be thought that I agreed in and approved of its contents. I, therefore return the letter to you. You must judge for yourself what to write to your friends in England...”, 3 sides 8vo., Cairo, 16th April
Item Date:
1887
Stock No:
43848
£55
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