COKE (Lady Katharine, née Egerton, daughter in law of the 1st Earl of Leicester, lady-in-waiting to the Duchess of Teck and to Queen Mary) and her daughter SYBIL

2 affectionate Autograph Letter Signed to Gertrude Drury (b. 1860, née Wakelin) the first thanking her for her present of 2 decanters for Sybil's wedding, and for "the pretty present you sent me", and saying she has "ordered a shred of wedding cake to be sent ... to the Post Office - Derby", the wedding was "most brilliant with all the guards' uniforms", and pointing her to "a little paragraph" in the Court Journal, in the second Sybil, as godmother, says she is sending "a little sugar basin and spoon", always useful to mother as well as baby Sybil "till she grows up!", and talks at length about the members of the Leicester family who are serving out in Egypt, while in England she scans the papers and hears "the street criers shouting all sorts of untrue things", together 8 sides 8vo., Sunninghill Park, Ascot, no date, and the Lodge, Brackley, 2nd April the first letter a little browned in spots

Gertrude had spent her teens at Potsdam, where her mother was Nanny to the Crown Princess' children, including Wilhelm II.

Item Date:  1884

Stock No:  51396      £75

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