CLARENDON (Edward Hyde, 1846-1914, from 1870 5th Earl, Lord Chamberlain 1900-1905)

Autograph Letter Signed to Miss E. Rochfort Cowling, thanking her "for Mr. Arthur Bourchier's kind offer to reserve seats for me at the Garrick Theatre on the 11th of October" but saying that he has that day "to attend the Duke of Coburg's Wedding in Germany", 3 sides 8vo., The Grove, Watford, 26th September

Arthur Bourchier, 1863-1927, helped found the Oxford University Dramatic Society and was famous as 'Long John Silver'. Charles Edward, 1884-1954, Duke of Albany, succeeded his Uncle, Queen Victoria's son Alfred, as Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1900. On 11th October 1905 he married at Glücksburg Victoria Adelheid, daughter of Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein.

Item Date:  1905

Stock No:  14815      £15

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