Beschreibung:

AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION -- EUROPEAN ROYAL FAMILIES, 19th Century. A collection of autograph letters signed to members of the Mensdorff-Pouilly family (chiefly to Counts Albert and Alphonse), 1831-1876 and n.d., the correspondents including VICTORIA, Queen of England (3 January 1848, a friendly letter sending New Year's greetings, 4½ pages, 8vo ), Prince ALBERT (14 October 1858, on political and social questions, 6½ pages, 8vo ), EDWARD VII (undated), WILHELM II of Prussia (1876), LEOPOLD I of Belgium (3 letters, 1831-1862), Victoria, Duchess of Kent (7 letters, one lacking opening pages), and Victoria of Prussia (3 letters, one lacking opening pages), altogether 17 letters , usually sending greetings and family news, the majority in German. Queen Victoria regarded her four Mensdorff-Pouilly cousins, sons of her maternal aunt Princess Sophia of Saxe-Coburg, as 'out and out the nicest cousins we have'. They were also first cousins of Prince Albert and nephews of Leopold I of Belgium. (17)