ALS signed “V.R.I.,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, Windsor Castle letterhead, December 12, 1887. Letter to Dr. Cameron Lees, who baptized Queen Victoria's granddaughter, Princess Victoria Eugenie (daughter of Princess Beatrice) at Balmoral on November 23, 1887. In part: "How kind it is of you to have written to me yourself! I do so feel for you and understand your sufferings! How too true is that awful silence, that longing and praying for a sign, the very Highest, to know what our dear ones feel! Oh! indeed why cannot this be? That you may have some comforting dream as I had—you ought not to be alone—it is not good. Some friend who sympathizes with you and to whom you can talk should be with you. The poor children are alas! too young to be a comfort and they jar on one's misery very tryingly, very often. That our Heavenly may give you peace and strength and that your valuable health may not suffer is the earnest prayer of your sincere and sympathizing friend." She adds a postscript, "No child can ever replace the partner of one's life." In fine condition. Lees's wife, Rhoda, passed away in 1887, leaving behind two children.
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