BIB_ID
354936
Accession number
MA 700.14
Creator
MacDonald, Annie.
Display Date
1892 Jan. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.6 cm
Notes
Located on the verso of leaf 37.
Part of an album of autographs, letters, pictures, and ephemera collected by Mrs. G.A. Waetzig, a servant of Queen Victoria. Select items in the album are described in individual records. See MA 700 for more information.
Written on mourning stationery with "Osborne" and a crown at the top of the page.
Part of an album of autographs, letters, pictures, and ephemera collected by Mrs. G.A. Waetzig, a servant of Queen Victoria. Select items in the album are described in individual records. See MA 700 for more information.
Written on mourning stationery with "Osborne" and a crown at the top of the page.
Provenance
Mrs. G.A. Waetzig; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1910.
Summary
Writing on behalf of Queen Victoria to thank her for her letter; saying that the Queen's thoughts are at Sandringham with "the Prince & Princess of Wales" [following the death of their son, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, on Jan. 14, 1892]; hoping Mrs. Waetzig will escape the influenza.
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