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), apologizing "for not having thanked you in writing or de vive voix ... for your most kind contribution to the Saturday Lifeboat Institution Fund. Please attribute my negligence to the surfeit of Bazaars! ... I accomplished my visit to Windsor most successfully and afterwards met the Prince and Princess of Wales at the West London Hospital ... but ... spent the rest of the day on the sofa", embossed crowned monogram, 3 sides 8vo, White Lodge, Richmond Park, 22nd May

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:  53073      £100

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