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      £125

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