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), explaining her anxiety, reinforced by a confidential letter "addressed to Mr Hood, who is abroad", about the "Watercress and Flower Girls' Mission", in that "a variety of other agencies" such as the "Rescue of homeless waif Children ... and so forth", having "nothing in common with the Mission as originally founded", are due to benefit from the Exhibition on Tuesday, it was the "Watercress & Flower Girls and Flower Makers whose exhibits at the Evening Fête, last year, at the Royal Botanic so took my fancy that my sympathies were enlisted", she asks Mr & Mrs Bevan to insist on the one cause if "I am to open it on Tuesday", ending "Very Affectionately Your's", embossed crowned monogram, 6 sides 8vo black-edged, White Lodge, Richmond Park, 7th March

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

Item Date:  1896

Stock No:  53072      £125

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