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Auction: 24025 - Historical Documents Featuring the Major David Cecil Underwood Jr Collection of Royal Visits to India 1876-1906
Lot: 112

(x) The Major David Cecil Underwood Jr. Collection
India 1905-06
1906 Autograph letter written on notepaper headed "Prince of Wales's Camp / India" with the cypher of the Princess of Wales, Victoria Mary. She writes from Agra to Mr Oertel, Archaeologist, thanking him "For your kindness in explaining all the beautiful Agra buildings to me and also for meeting me at Sarnath." With the original envelope addressed to him at Agra, hand delivered with a "pin as a small souvenir of these occasions".

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