Royalty
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), saying that May and I shall be charmed to accept your invitation to 5 o'Clock tea... if we may be allowed a ¼ of an hour's grace... I shall be very pleased to see Augusta Maclagan again, wife of the future Archbishop of York, and to have a quiet chat with you both, they are greatly refreshed by 5 weeks... up at St. Moritz... and the Italian lakes... after all the fatigues of the Jubilee season, embossed crowned monogram, 4 sides 8vo, White Lodge, Richmond Park, 11th October
Item Date: 1887
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Mrs Bevan was a London President of the Needlework Guild, whose clothes and parcels half filled White Lodge each autumn.
Stock No. 53065
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