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), thanking her "for the admirable manner in which you ... executed my commission" for articles at the last bazaar, "Should you have any of the Irish work left ... I will gladly take some at cost price, for Lady Tankerville's sale ... in aid of a Hospital in Bethnal Green", she is "truly grateful ... to you for consenting to become a President of the London Needlework Guild ... in addition to your mass of other work. You have only to find 5 Vice Presidents (40 Associates)", thus limiting her correspondence "to 5 ladies", and hopes to explain more "at Lady Ashburton's meeting" today, embossed crowned monogram, 4 sides 8vo black-edged, White Lodge, Richmond Park, 31st March

Mrs Bevan was a London President of the Needlework Guild, whose clothes and parcels half filled White Lodge each autumn.

Item Date:  1886

Stock No:  53063      £125

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