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Autograph letter signed : Osborne, to an unidentified recipient [Mrs. G.A. Waetzig?], 1896 Jan. 24.

BIB_ID
355002
Accession number
MA 700.20
Creator
MacDonald, Annie.
Display Date
1896 Jan. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.7 cm
Notes
Located on the verso of leaf 41.
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 letterhead.
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 the recipient for her "kind sympathy" following the death of Prince Henry of Battenberg, Victoria's son-in-law.