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Autograph Letter Signed ‘Baroness de Speth’, thanking her correspondent for his letter, explaining that “Her Royal Highness proposes leaving Frogmore for Town on Tuesday”, but the Baroness has written to the Lord Chamberlain who will permit her correspondent to visit the private Apartments at Windsor Castle which are not shown to the public”, etc. 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. Frogmore House, Windsor, 21 April, no year given. Uncommon. Marie Walberg, Baroness de Speth was born in Germany in 1781 or 1782 (census, 1851). She is listed in the census of 1851 among those in residence at Frogmore House, Windsor, and is described there as an unmarried woman. She died at her residence in Ebury Street on 19 July 1859 (Evening Mail, 22 July 1859, p. 8). ‘The Baroness has been for 52 years the affectionate and devoted friend and servant of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent (Evening Mail, 27 July 1859, p. 1).