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Lot Description

[ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL MANUSCRIPTS]. STUART, Elizabeth (1596-1662). Autograph letter signed (“Elizabeth”), to Henry Rich. The Hague, October [1637].

1 page, folio (260 x 181 mm), on a laid paper bifolium, addressed verso with remnants of two black wax seals, some creasing with most from folds, slight toning and staining, a touch of soiling to sheet edges.

Known as the "Winter Queen" for her brief year as Queen of Bohemia, Elizabeth Stuart was the Electress of the Palatine and granddaughter of Mary Queen of Scots. She and her husband Frederick V had their court in exile where she penned this letter to Rich, the 1st Earl of Holland regarding the death of Wiliam V (1602-1637), "the brave Landgrave of Hess."

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