Lot n° 236
Estimation :
300 - 500
EUR
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Result
: 520EUR
PHILIPPE, prince de Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha (1844-1921) - Lot 236
PHILIPPE, prince de Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha (1844-1921)
Set of 8 L.A.S.: "Philippe", dated May 2, 1885 to December 30, 1886, sent from Budapest, Szent-Antal-Selmeczbanya, Vienna, Gömör, Laxenburg, Abbazia, etc., addressed to his mother Princess Clémentine d'Orléans (1817-1907), 35 pages, one letter is preserved with its envelope, text in French, folds, foxing, but overall good condition.
-Budapest, May 2, 1885: "I have just returned from the opening of the [Universal] Exhibition, which went off wonderfully in superb weather, sunny but with a violent wind. In front of the royal pavilion where we were with the Archduke and Archduchess Rodolphe promoted a (...) the Emperor replied, Tina thanked him and then we set off, the Emperor leading Stephanie, the princesses following, then the princes, all the ambassadors, ministers and in full regalia. We went through the central building, the forest pavilion, the Albert pavilion [Archduke of Austria, Duke of Teschen (1817-1895)] and the Croatian pavilion. By 1 a.m. everything was finished in perfect order, and the almost-finished exhibition is superb. Tomorrow at 6:45 a.m. we have to be there for the Emperor's walk, who is also visiting my three exhibitions: agriculture, forests and forges. Tonight at Andrassy's [Count Gyula (1823-1890), former minister-president of Hungary], tomorrow lunch for the Josephs on the island, then shopping, an evening at court (...) the toilette was very beautiful today, Stéphanie in blue, Isabelle in black, the little Clots [daughters of his sister, Clothilde] in pink, Clot in red with hat as well, Louise in green and pink. Yesterday for the party, the Rodolphe family came to congratulate me and give me a cane and a cigarette case. The Josephs [his sister and brother-in-law], the Fritzes during the big convention and (...) de faille, arrival of the Emperor, who congratulated me very kindly. In the evening, there was a familiendiner, but we were not invited, as we were told there would have been thirteen of us. Moltke's aide-de-camp fell from his horse in Joseph's house and lay on the ground in his blood, he's very ill (...) Charles-Louis, Louis-Victor, Albert [brothers and cousin of Emperor Franz Joseph] looked pretty good as Hungarian generals (...)". - July 4, 1885: (...) Clot's sons are doing very well at Isch..., but Clot had to go too. I read in the papers that Z... was in Budapest doing the honors for King Milan. (...) we're having lovely horse-rides in the morning, and hunting in the afternoon, and I'm fishing for crayfish. The children are out most of the day. (...) Beatrice [Princess of Great Britain, daughter of Queen Victoria] telegraphed me to be at Osborne on the 22nd, wedding in uniform on the 23rd [this refers to Beatrice's marriage to Prince Henry of Battenberg], departure on the 25th. I think we'll leave here on the 14th, but I don't know yet where we'll go to sea. If there is no reply from Brussels. I'm thinking of Boulogne. The Rodolphe family are in Brussels from the 7th to the 14th. (...) Aunt Alexandrine wrote to me to send a fan to Beatrice (...)". -Szent-Antal, August 1, 1886: "(...) I heard you had left for Hanover and Laeken. I hope the trip went well without too much heat. Through a letter from Wladimir, I learned that you were not in Hastings, but in Brighton where you went to find Uncle Montpensier and the Rainiers (...) Thank you for your kind letter of July 23, the storms at Ebenthal must have been terrible, I knew nothing of Ebersdorf. Here we haven't had a single storm, not a drop of rain, delightful weather since our arrival. After a few hot days, the cooler weather has returned, and we can no longer dine out. We continue to enjoy our walks and runs, discovering new paths and forests. The other day we went to Vichuye, took a walk with 3 doctors, a bath director and 2 friends from ztefult, to the Kachelmann forges, then to the Sea of Stones, which I hadn't seen before, and finally had dinner under the trees with the gypsies. Found in Kihnge the painter Vastagh, master of Clot, who will come to see the Antal. Today there was to be a ball at Izlirais for the Queen of Serbia; we wanted to go, but her sudden departure, recalled by telegraph, meant the party fell through. Hasch, the painter who sketched and painted with Louise, is an excellent occupation. We're still very excited in Hungary about the useless Edelsheim-Zunsky affair, today in Budapest, a great absurd demonstration. Uncle Montpensier gives me good news of everyone, he's going to Bayreuth and seems in high spirits. Adieu ma chère Maman, Louise, les enfants et moi nous vous embrasseons de tout cœur Your most devoted sonHave you read the story of the bottle of dyn
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