AUTOGRAPH LETTER BY PRINCESS MARY ADELAIDE OF CAMBRIDGE, DUCHESS OF TECK

signed ('Mary Adelaide') to an unkwnon recipient, on mourning stationery, reading "On Thursday 31st of March a dinner will be held at Willis' Rooms, the Duke of Connaught taking the chair, in aid of my Village Homes for Little Girls (prisoners' children) at Addlestone, Surrey, a charity that bears my name and in which I take a very strong interest, for it is doing a good work in rescuing these poor strays from a hot-bed of vice and crime; and the object of this note is to request you to accept the Office of Steward at the dinner", three pages, light folding mark, small 8vo, Kensington Palace, 7 March 1881.