Beschreibung:

Collection of documents and letters by sovereigns and members of European royal houses, including Francis I of France (1537, damaged), Tsar Nicholas I, Queen Caroline Maria (friend of Lady Hamilton), Princess Amelia (2 fine letters to the daughter of her wet-nurse, 1807 and 1808), Princess Sophia, the Empress Frederick, William IV (commission), Napoleon III (from English exile, 1847), the Empress Eugenie and the Prince Imperial, Augusta, wife of Prince Frederick (1759), Queen Caroline (fragment signed as guardian of the kingdom in George It’s absence), Queen Adelaide, George V (censored autograph letter, 1885), Charlotte Princess Royal and Duchess of Nuremberg, the Duke of Cambridge, Leopard I of the Belgians (3), Queen Alexandra, Edward Duke of Kent (about the decoration of Kensington Palace), Edward VII, Ernest Augustus Elector of Hanover (father of George I, 1683), Ernest King of Hanover etc., Mary Adelaide of Tack, Victoria Duchess of Kent (a letter of condolence to Princess Sophia Matilda, 1834: “I am sure that my sympathy and Victoria’s, will be kindly received…a just tribute to the memory of your good brother, who never varied in his kindness, to me or Victoria…”; plus a christening inscription to the future Empress Frederick), Prince Leopold (“…We have good accounts from Russia of my sister-in-law, who seems as well and happy as can be expected in this most trying time…”), Louis Philippe, Prince Albert (signed envelope front), Sophia Electrets of Hanover (grand-daughter of James I and mother of George I, 1704), and others, guards