Pièce 78 - Letter from Sir Frank Chantry to Frank Buckland

1 letter

Claridges Hotel
42 Brooke Street
Grosvenor Square W

Decbr. 15th/61

Dear Mr. Frank Buckland
I could not think what had become of you, that you should have been located at Windsor, for so many months never entered by head - I am however glad to find you are in the land of the living, and hope you will long remain here. How very much I feel for the Queen, to lose one she so dearly loved - one so young that she might have ensured his life for years, one so gifted and so highly thought of by all. His death is a national loss - yet His Royal Highness is happier than even Her Majesty could have made him here. I have given £10 to the [?] Society but they have not acknowledged it in any way. I sent it on the 9th of last July thro' Coutts Bank perhaps they don't send a receipt for what is paid thro' a Bankers. You must excuse this. I am writing by candle light and my eyes are so bad that I cannot see to make a letter even with spectacles.
If you can tell me one thing of Her Majesty, pray do - as to how she is and how she bears her loss

Believe me
Sincerely yours
Sir Frank Chantry