HELENA (Augusta Victoria, 1846-1923, wife, 1866, of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Princess, 3rd Daughter of Queen Victoria, founder of the Princess Christian Nursing Home)

Autograph Letter Signed to Captain Tharp, thanking him "for yr. kind note. We shall be delighted to see you on Sunday & hope you will stay & dine & sleep her", and hoping "you are not going out again to S. Africa!", embossed crowned 'Helena' on ribbon at head, 1 side 8vo black edged, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Park, 5th July year incomplete but 1900 - very light traces of laying down on margijns of conjugate blank

The Prince and Princess's son Christian Victor died at Pretoria of enteric fever on 29th October 1900.

Item Date:  1902

Stock No:  53948      £125

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