MARY ADELAIDE (Duchess of Teck, 1833-1897, Queen Mary's Mother)

Autograph letter signed to 'Dearest Mrs Bevan', (Maria, née Trotter, d. 1903, third wife (1875) of Francis Augustus Bevan, 1840-1919, the first chairman of Barclays Bank), asking her if Mr Bevan thinks "a Mr Byatt, whom he has befriended, is worthy of recommendation for secretarial work ... Please forgive me for adding another to the innumerable notes you have to write ! ... Very affectionately Your's", embossed coronet, 3 sides 8vo black-edged, White Lodge, Richmond Park, 29th January

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

Item Date:  1893

Stock No:  53070      £100

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