BIB_ID
428156
Accession number
MA 9781.2
Creator
Mary, Princess, Duchess of Teck, 1833-1897.
Display Date
London, England, 1897 April 29.
Credit line
Gift of Patricia S. Baldwin, 2018.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Written from "White Lodge, / Richmond Park" on stationery engraved with the address.
A note in the upper left corner "Dictated / by H.R.H."
There is a second four-page fragment of a letter, also dictated by the Duchess of Teck and in the hand of Hélène Bricka, on the evening of the same date. It was acquired in the original gift (MA 3564) and is housed with three other letters written by Miss Bricka. In the second letter Miss Bricka reports on the increasingly poor health of the Duchess and Miss Bricka refers to this second letter in her letter of May 4, 1897 to Dr. Baldwin (MA 9781.14) which discusses an emergency operation on the Duchess.
This letter is part of a collection of letters from the Duke and Duchess of Teck, Mary of Teck and two members of their Royal Household, Hélène Bricka and A. Nelson Hood to Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin. See the collection record for more information.
A note in the upper left corner "Dictated / by H.R.H."
There is a second four-page fragment of a letter, also dictated by the Duchess of Teck and in the hand of Hélène Bricka, on the evening of the same date. It was acquired in the original gift (MA 3564) and is housed with three other letters written by Miss Bricka. In the second letter Miss Bricka reports on the increasingly poor health of the Duchess and Miss Bricka refers to this second letter in her letter of May 4, 1897 to Dr. Baldwin (MA 9781.14) which discusses an emergency operation on the Duchess.
This letter is part of a collection of letters from the Duke and Duchess of Teck, Mary of Teck and two members of their Royal Household, Hélène Bricka and A. Nelson Hood to Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin. See the collection record for more information.
Provenance
Dr. William W. Baldwin; his grandson Nicholas Baldwin; Patricia S. Baldwin.
Summary
Apologizing for her delay in thanking him for the "charming photograph which I admire immensely. You & Mrs. Balwin [sic] may indeed be proud of the looks of your children! but I have just returning from a resting visit at York Cottage & found so much to occupy me that I had to neglect you, for which I know you will forgive me. For the last two months I have been going through a course of the artificial Nauheim Baths which have taken up a great deal of my time, so that your dear, kind letter has also remained unacknowledged. I am so pleased that the bowl has found favour in your sight. Strangely enough Dr. Heineman has also written to me soliciting my aid in procuring for him the post of 'Assistant of the Grossherzogl' -Bade Direction, of Bad Nauheim. I am in two minds as to what I am to do . On the one hand there is no doubt that his scientific researches would win over many great doctors to the Schott treatment whilst on the other I share your fear that Dr. Schott's practise might suffer. i send you Dr. Heineman's letter to me & Lady Katharine Coke's temporizing reply which i think & hope you will approve. Also his latest letter to Lady R. received yesterday. please advise me a to what in fairness to Dr. Schott I should do. We are all overjoyed at darling May's safety & at the birth of our first granddaughter. The accounts from Sandringham of mother & child continue excellent *& I hope soon to go and take my share of nursing my daughter. I think Dr. Thorne & Dr. Wadd are very much pleased with the result of the Baths, but also! I have been laid up for the last day or two with a bilious attack & am therefore obliged to dictate this letter & leave Mme. Bricka to tell you all about our dear Frank & Alge. Alge has done admirably well in Matabeteland.".
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