Princess Victoria of Battenberg to Octavia Hill

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Reference
- GB 106 9/02/090
Former Reference
- GB 106 ALC/1524
Dates of Creation
- 2 Aug 1888
Physical Description
- 1 item

Scope and Content

Thanks her for her letter and writes for further advice on care of illegitimate children by Alice Society, founded by her mother (Q.Victoria's daughter) of which she is now President. Under present system Society loses control of children at age of 6 when they go to school and cannot supervise foster parents etc., as is done with orphans (with envelope).

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Autograph Letter Collection: General Women's Movement9/02

Frances Elizabeth King to CN Wawn9/02/001

The Duchess of Clarence to Miss Lloyd9/02/002

Mary Anning to Sir Astley Cooper9/02/003

Mary Howitt to Mary Carpenter9/02/004

Miss Mary Linwood to Mrs Burnaby9/02/005

The League of Universal Brotherhood to Mary Carpenter9/02/006

Mr J Marshall to [unknown man]9/02/007

Lady Leigh to Mary Carpenter9/02/008

Mary Carpenter to 'Dear Sirs'9/02/009

Emily Faithfull to Mrs Newman9/02/010

Theophilus Smith to Mr Robert M Milnes MP9/02/011

Maria Rye to Madam Bodichon9/02/012

Miss Emily Faithfull to Miss Bethell9/02/013

Madame Bodichon to [unknown]9/02/014

Lord Shaftsbury to Madame Bodichon9/02/015

Madame Bodichon to Lord Shaftsbury9/02/016

Miss Rye to Madame Bodichon9/02/017

John Knapp to Miss Rye9/02/018

Maria Rye to Madame Bodichon9/02/019

Seed Lives9/02/020

Maria Rye to Madame Bodichon9/02/021

Miss Helen Taylor to Madame Bodichon9/02/022

John Stuart Mill to Mary Carpenter9/02/023

Frances Power Cobb to [unknown]9/02/024

Maria Rye to Miss Paget9/02/025

Florence Nightingale to Miss AJ Clough9/02/026

Florence Nightingale to Mar Carpenter9/02/027

Part of a review of an article by Edwin Chadwick9/02/028

Emily Faithfull fragment9/02/029

Sir Leopold McClintock to Mary Carpenter9/02/030

Helen Taylor to Madame Bodichon9/02/031

Miss Burdett Coutts to Mary Carpenter9/02/032

Duke of Argyll to Mary Carpenter9/02/033

L Hubbard to Miss Ridley9/02/034

Annie Macpherson: signatures9/02/035

Frances Power Cobb to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/036

Sir Edward Clarke to Mr James Hain Friswell9/02/037

Sir Alexander Grant to Mrs Blyth9/02/038

Miss Winkworth to Miss Warren9/02/039

Miss Faithfull to the Duke of Argyll9/02/040

Emily Faithfull: business letter9/02/041

Miss Emily Faithfull to [unknown]9/02/042

Mary Carpenter to Prof Henry Fawcett9/02/043

Louisa Gann to Miss Ridley9/02/044

Louisa Gann to 'Katie'9/02/045

Octavia Hill to 'Dear Sir'9/02/046

Johanna Chandler to Miss Ridley9/02/047

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Mrs Lewes9/02/048

Agnes I Ward to Miss Ridley9/02/049

Duke of Westminster to Octavia Hill9/02/050

Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Mrs Elmy9/02/051

John Stuart Mill to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/052

Mrs Henrietta Barnett to Miss Ridley9/02/053

Mrs Alice Westlake to Miss Ridley9/02/054

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Madame Bodichon9/02/055

Ursula Bright to 'Sir'9/02/056

Selwyn Image to Miss Garrett9/02/057

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Madame Bodichon9/02/058

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Madame Bodichon9/02/059

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Madame Bodichon9/02/060

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Madame Bodichon9/02/061

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Madame Bodichon9/02/062

Mrs Mary Hyett to Miss Ridley9/02/063

Emily Faithfull to Mr Baynham9/02/064

Mrs Emma Paterson to Mr Ernest Hart9/02/065

Daniel Cooper to 'Dear Madam'9/02/066

Lady Strangford to Miss Faithfull9/02/067

Daniel Cooper to 'Dear Madam'9/02/068

Maria Susan Rye to Miss Buss9/02/069

The Earl of Dalhousie to 'The Editor'9/02/070-71

Emily Faithfull to Mr Baynham9/02/072

Edmund Yates to Miss Emily Faithfull9/02/073

Lady Frances Brabham to Mrs Stirling9/02/074

May H Steer to Miss Ridley9/02/075

Bishop William Walsham How to Octavia Hill9/02/076

Miss Frances M Buss to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/077

L Ormiston Chant to Miss Ridley9/02/078

Lord Rippon to Miss Faithfull9/02/079

Lord Derby to Miss Faithfull9/02/080

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Mme. Bodichon9/02/081

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Mme Bodichon9/02/082

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Mme Bodichon9/02/083

'J' to 'My dear Ethel'9/02/084

Lord Brabazon to Miss Faithfull9/02/085

Baroness Burdett Coutts to Octavia Hill9/02/086

Emily Faithfull to Mr Pritchard9/02/087

Miss Emily Faithfull to 'gentlemen'9/02/088

John Morley to Mrs Fawcett9/02/089

Princess Victoria of Battenberg to Octavia Hill9/02/090

Octavia Hill to Miss Sunderland9/02/091

Octavia Hill to Archdeacon Farrar of Westminster9/02/092

Mary H Hart to Miss Ridley9/02/093

The Countess of Aberdeen to Mr Miles9/02/094

Lord Derby to Mrs Fawcett9/02/095

Mrs EP Phipson to Mrs Fawcett9/02/096

Lester Drummond to Miss Bidder9/02/097

Lady Dufferin and Ava [Harriot] to Miss TF De la Forse9/02/098

Mr Walter McLaren to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/099

Frances Power Cobb to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/100

Mr Walter Mc'Laren's Notice of Motion, Matrimonial Causes Act 18879/02/101

Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Bill9/02/102

Mrs Ellen Frances Pinsent to Miss Hughes9/02/103

Eleanor Marx Aveling to 'Dear Comrade'9/02/104

Sale of Furniture notice9/02/105

Lady Isabella Caroline Somerset to Mrs Fawcett9/02/106

Prince George to Mr Hugh Smith9/02/107

Miss Rosamond Davenport Hill to the Editor of the 'Daily Graphic'9/02/108

Emma Cons to Miss Somerville9/02/109

Frances Evelyn Warwick to 'Dear Madam'9/02/110

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/111

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/112

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/113

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/114

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/115

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/116

The Duchess of Northumberland9/02/117

Duchess of Northumberland9/02/118

International Council of Women Circular Letter9/02/119

Constance M Eden to Mrs Binks9/02/120

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/121

Mrs Fawcett to 'My Lord'9/02/122

Octavia Hill to [unknown]9/02/123

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/124

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/125

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/126

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/127

Lord Milner at Johannesburg to Mrs Fawcett9/02/128

Mrs Arthur Lyttelton to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/129

Ed Navilly to Mrs Fawcett9/02/130

Sir David Gill to Mrs Fawcett9/02/131

Mrs Louise Creighton to Mrs Franklin9/02/132

Earl Spencer to Mrs Courtney9/02/133

Louisa Twining to Lady Strachey9/02/134

Mr Gordon Hewart to Mr Parks9/02/135

Miss Nancy Paul to Miss Alice Zimmern9/02/136

Mrs Emily Crawford to Miss Palliser9/02/137

Mrs Mary Auga Ward to Mrs Loftie9/02/138

Charlotte Carmichael Stopes to Mrs Elmy9/02/139

Mrs Mary Auga Ward to Lord Lytton9/02/140

Miss RE Lawrence to Mrs Lees9/02/141

Miss Strachey to Florence Nightingale9/02/142

Elizabeth Bonsanquet to Miss Strachey9/02/143

Dinner programme9/02/144

Miss Clementina Black to Miss Strachey9/02/145

Miss Clementina Black to Miss Strachey9/02/146

Miss Clementina Black to Miss Strachey9/02/147

Mrs Shelley Gulick to Miss Strachey9/02/148

Milly Emily Loch to Miss Ford9/02/149

Maud RR Mackenzie to Miss Strachey9/02/150

Maud RR Mackenzie to Miss Strachey9/02/151

Dr Shipman MP to Mrs Lees of Oldham9/02/152

Agnes Savory to Miss P Strachey9/02/153

Lady Frances Balfour to Mrs Lees9/02/154

Mrs Margaret Macdonald to Mr Nodin9/02/155

Lady Frances Balfour to Mrs Lees9/02/156

Mr Asquith to Mr Alfred Emmott MP9/02/157

Alfred Emmott MP to the Prime Minister [Asquith]9/02/158

Mr Asquith to Mr Emmott9/02/159

Mrs Mary Auga Ward to Mr Matheson9/02/160

The Duchess of Montrose to Miss Ford9/02/161

Marian Berry to Miss P Strachey9/02/162

Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Mr HJ Wilson9/02/163

Miss Emily Penrose to Mrs Vaughan Nash9/02/164

Mary A Ward to Mrs Stokes9/02/165

Resolutions 19/02/166

Resolutions 29/02/167

Mary A Ward to [unknown]9/02/168

Maria [Vice President] to 'Dearest Evelyn'9/02/169-170

Mr OM Westerberg to Dr [Helen] Wilson9/02/171

[Dr Helen Wilson] to M Sublet9/02/172

Dr Helen Wilson to Dr Alstrom9/02/173

Hedda Alstrom to Dr Wilson9/02/174

Dr Helen Wilson to Dr Alstrom9/02/175

P Sublet to Dr Helen Wilson9/02/176

Dr Hedda Alstrom to Dr Wilson9/02/177

Dr Hedda Alstrom to Dr Wilson9/02/178

Dr Hedda Alstrom to Dr Wilson9/02/179

Dr Hedda Alstrom to Dr Wilson9/02/180

Dr Hedda Alstrom to Dr Wilson9/02/181

Dr Hedda Alstrom to Dr Wilson9/02/182

Dr Hedda Alstrom to Dr Wilson9/02/183

Mrs Louise Creighton to Miss Lees9/02/184

Mrs HM Swanwick to Mrs Lees9/02/185

Mr AWG Jamrach to Mrs Corbett Ashby9/02/186-189

Mabel Chapman to Mrs Lees9/02/190

Lady Astor to Lord Derby9/02/191

Dame Katherine Furse to Lord Derby War Office9/02/192

The Welding School. Notting Hill Gate to Miss Strachey9/02/193

Miss P Strachey to Lady Bertha Dawkins9/02/194

Lady Bertha Dawkins (lady in waiting to Queen Mary) to Lady Brassey on the occasion of a visit of H.M. to the Women Welders9/02/195

Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Miss P Strachey9/02/196

Miss BA Clough to Miss MM Longley9/02/197

Mrs Ellen Duncan to Miss Strachey9/02/198

Secretary to Miss P Strachey to Mrs Ellen Duncan9/02/199

Lady Edmonstone to Miss Ford9/02/200

Dame Katherine Furse to Miss Strachey9/02/201

Lady Edmonstone to Miss Ford9/02/202

Dame Katherine Furse to Miss Strachey9/02/203

Executive Committee of the London Society to Lord Buckmaster9/02/204

Lord Buckmaster to [London Society]9/02/205

Mrs A Chalmers Watson to Miss Gibson9/02/206

Article: Mrs A Chalmers Watson and Miss Gibson9/02/207

Miss Mary HJ Henderson to Mrs Graves9/02/208

Miss Swiney to Miss MAR Tuker9/02/209

Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Mrs Atkinson9/02/210

Gwyneth Thomson to Miss Strachey9/02/211

Miss P Strachey: Speech9/02/212

Bessie Ingman Drysdale to Teresa [Billington Greig]9/02/213

Mr NK Warren Fisher to Lady Emmott9/02/214

Miss P Strachey to Mrs Fawcett9/02/215

Mrs Fawcett to Miss Strachey9/02/216

Miss Philippa Strachey to Lady Emmott9/02/217

Carrie Chapman Catt to Miss Daisy Solomon9/02/218

[MUA] Ward to Miss Morrison9/02/219

Archbishop of Canterbury, Private Secretary to the League of the Church Militant9/02/220

Elizabeth Macadam to Miss M Lees9/02/221

Mrs Maria Ogilvie Gordon to Miss Marjory Lees9/02/222

Evelyn Sharp to Mrs Catford9/02/223

Evelyn Sharp to Mrs Catford9/02/224

Miss Champneys to Miss Ford [probably Miss S. Gertrude Ford, suffragist and free lance journalist]9/02/225

Dame Ethel Smyth to Miss P Strachey9/02/226A

Miss Agnes Brown to Miss Helen Ward9/02/226B

Duchess of Atholl to the Curator of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library9/02/227

Miss Nina Boyle to Miss Berry9/02/228

Lord Robert Cecil to Miss Strachey9/02/229

Marjory Lees to Dame Adelaide Livingstone9/02/230

Lord Crewe to Lady Emmott9/02/231

Miss Speyer to Miss P Strachey9/02/232

Miss P Strachey to Miss Speyer9/02/233

Miss Evelyn Adelaide Sharp to Miss Strachey9/02/234

Miss Evelyn Adelaide Sharp to Miss Strachey9/02/235

Mrs Alys Russell to Miss Strachey9/02/236

Miss Philippa Strachey to Editor Time and Tide9/02/237

Assistant Editor Time and Tide to Miss Strachey9/02/238

Miss MS Kilgour to Miss Philippa Strachey9/02/239

London & National Society for Women's Service to Miss Mary Smieton9/02/240

Miss Mary Smieton to Miss Blackwell9/02/241

Miss Frances Mary Sterling to Miss Strachey9/02/242

Miss Honor Lawrence to Miss Philippa Strachey9/02/243

Miss Honor Lawrence to Miss Philippa Strachey9/02/244

Miss Emmy Mahler to Miss Eleanor Rathbone MP9/02/245

Miss Emily Mahler to Miss Eleanor Rathbone MP9/02/246

Dame Margaret Tuke to Miss Strachey9/02/247

Mrs Ibbott to Mrs. How-Martyn9/02/248

K Bompas to Mrs Billington Greig9/02/249

M Corbett Ashby to 'The Secretary'9/02/250

Mrs Corbett Ashby to Mrs Billington Greig9/02/251

Lady Stephen to Miss Strachey9/02/252

Lady Stephen to Miss Strachey9/02/253

Edith Tancred to Miss Strachey9/02/254

Lady Stephen to Miss Strachey9/02/255

Dame Ethel Snowden to Miss Strachey9/02/256

Helen Nutting to Mrs Billington Greig9/02/257

Helen Nutting to Mrs Billington Greig9/02/258

Elspeth Huxley to Mrs How-Martyn9/02/259

Dr Marie Stopes to Mrs Edith How-Martyn9/02/260

Mrs Corbett Ashby to Members [addressed to Mrs Billington Greig]9/02/261

Lord Templewood to Miss Philippa Strachey9/02/262

Clifton Brown to Miss Philippa Strachey9/02/263

Myra Curtis to Vicountess Davidson9/02/264

Lord Ruffside to Vicountess Davidson9/02/265

Lord Pethick Lawrence to Vicountess Davidson9/02/266

Dame Edith Evans to Vicountess Davidson9/02/267

Lord Ruffed to Mrs Horton9/02/268

Mrs Barbara Castle to Librarian of Fawcett Society9/02/269

Mrs Barbara Castle to Mrs W Popplewell9/02/270

Autograph signatures9/02/271

Fragment from Printing Works; E Leathes Esq. With Miss Faithfull's compliments9/02/272

Fragment from Printing Works; E Leathes Esq. With Miss Faithfull's compliments9/02/273

Fragment from Printing Works; E Leathes Esq. With Miss Faithfull's compliments9/02/274

Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Mrs Newson Garrett9/02/275

Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Mrs Newson Garrett9/02/276