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(Autographs & Memorabilia | Live Online, 4th December 2020) Royal Interest. Royal Interest.- A collection of letters from members of the British Royal Family, comprising: Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex, to “Dear Ned”, reads in part “If Mr Chaplin your friend has a vote… Press him on the subject and get him to get out for the Election to Cambridge”, referring to Palmerston who was MP for Cambridge 1811-1831,one page, 8vo, c.1831); Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester (“Dear Irina, I will do what I can for you orphans. I hope you are well and enjoying yourself and above all hoping to know your thoughts towards this part of the world…”, two pages, mailing folds, 8vo, nd; another reads “I feel deeply your kind recollections of me at a time… distressing a trial as ending your dear Mothers funeral…”, signed 2Mary”, autograph letter signed, 4p., mailing folds, April 17th, another form Princess Sophia, to Mr Freeling of the Post Office, to return her best thanks for the trouble he has so kindly taken to ascertain the security of the letter she feared had been mislaid., 1p., mailing folds, September 19th 1823; another from Princess Frederica of Hanover wirtes, “Dear Capt. de Saumarez, Will you accept my warm thanks for so kindly lending your pretty house and grounds to the sale of the Ladies of the Committee and to friends who give their help in selling the work at the Working Ladies Guild which with your generous permission is going to be at your beautiful place…”, autograph letter signed, 6pp, mailing folds, June 30, 1894?; with another letter to Lord Selborne, reads in part “I am very grateful to Revd Thomas Campbell for giving me the opportunity of writing to you, which is a great pleasure to me. It is in a matter in which I hope it will be in your power to help me as I have a great favour to ask you regarding the worthy Mr. Campbell I have mentioned, whose health is not sufficiently good to allow of his remaining where he is at present in Lincolnshire, he is obliged to live at Boston as there is no Glebe House in his Parish, his wife is very delicate and suffers much from the climate…”, autograph letter, signed, 4pp, mailing folds, 1885; Adolphus Duke of Cambridge writes “My dear Lord, I take the liberty of recommending to you the Revd. John Piercy who has been curate for some years of Rushack in the Diocese of Worcester. His Father the Revd. George Henry Piercy the Vicar of Chaddesley having applied to me to name himself to (you) as he has discharged his duties as Curate of Rushack in an exemplary manner and he is in every aspect worthy of preferment.” autograph letter signed, 3p., mailing folds, March 15, 1845; another from Margaret of Teck, reads in part “Dear Captain Hayes, I enclose you a cheque for £1 for little Plumb and should more be required I can surely send it to you if you will very kindly send me a letter to Dr Dengler’s Sanatorium.” autograph letter signed, 4pp, mailing folds, May 5th, 1911; Prince William Frederick Duke of Gloucester, reads in part “I have this moment had the pleasure of receiving your letter of 27th and I lose no time in assuring that I shall have the greatest satisfaction in seeing you and the lawyer when you come to with him to town - From everything I had heard of your son, I am convinced he will prove an Acquisition to my Regiment and a Source of Comfort to his Parents.”, autograph letter, signed, 2p, mailing folds, January 29, 1814 (8)