BIB_ID
360161
Accession number
MA 848.10
Creator
Mary, Princess, Duchess of Teck, 1833-1897.
Display Date
1872 Oct. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
On White Lodge letterhead.
Part of a collection of letters from Princess Mary, Duchess of Teck, to Colonel Airey. Letters are described in individual records; please see main record for MA 848 for more details.
Part of a collection of letters from Princess Mary, Duchess of Teck, to Colonel Airey. Letters are described in individual records; please see main record for MA 848 for more details.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1911.
Summary
Enclosing a "most insolent" letter and vowing that if the writer "writes again, her letter shall be returned unopened"; discussing her support of the Female Orphans Asylum; asking him to "acknowledge with many thanks the receipt of the book on the Clematis dedicated to me" [The Clematis as a Garden Flower, by Thomas Moore and George Jackman].
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