VICTORIA Adelaïde Mary Louisa, Princess Royal of England and Princess Royal of Prussia (1840-1901). 10L.A.S., 1866-1886, to Baron de Triqueti or his family, plus 4 enclosed letters; 56pages in-8 with her crowned cipher, 5 envelopes; all tabbed in one in-4 volume, bound in ivory half vellum, calligraphic title on spine. Beautiful correspondence from the Princess Royal of Prussia to her former master. Staying in Windsor with her husband and sick baby boy, the Princess regrets not having been able to visit the Wolsey Chapel (Prince Albert's memorial chapel, on which Triqueti is working); she recommends that he announce himself to Queen Victoria to show it to her. The correspondence then concerns the monument the Princess wishes to dedicate in Potsdam to the memory of her son Sigismund, who died in infancy on June 18, 1866. She approached Triqueti [who ultimately did not carry it out] and suggested that he place the bust of the dear child, based on the one made by her pupil Miss Durant, as well as "vases that I will fill with flowers and two candlesticks whose form I beg you to decide"; she was sure he would know how to "unite the serenity of the antique style with the perfect freedom of composition and Christian elevation". She sent him drawings made according to his wishes, and expressed her delight at the progress of his work on the Wolsey Chapel (August 26, 1866). On September 10, 1866, she approved his drawing and gave details of a new bust she had entrusted to Professor Hagen in Berlin, as Sigismund had changed since Triqueti had seen him. She continued to send and exchange drawings, and thanked Triqueti for working "for us, making this little chapel, this little corner of the world that contains our most precious possession, and where we ourselves hope to rest one day, 'a monument of Love'. [...] Your admirable composition exudes tenderness, innocence and simplicity"; she worries about the subject on the opposite wall, about the text Triqueti will choose, about the apse; she gives him a list of the flowers she loves, to be realized in marble mosaic; she has seen in Wittenberg "the tombs of Luther and Melanchton and the beautiful tombs of my ancestors the Electors of Saxony by Peter Fischer - quite remarkable in style and work" (June 15, 1869). She wanted him to use marble she owned, and was delighted with the progress of the project (October 1869). But then war came, and the Countess of Brühl wrote to Triqueti that, despite her wishes, the Princess Royal could not accept his offer to begin work on "the little chapel of Prince Sigismund", not because Triqueti was French, but because "her funds are exhausted at the moment, and she is depriving herself as much as possible to be able to relieve the wounded, the widows and the orphans", but she will ask him, "as soon as circumstances allow", to get to work (April 4, 1871). Two copies of letters (in English) from the Princess to Miss Susan Durant (Triqueti's pupil and collaborator) show her affection for Triqueti and his family, and her dismay at the war and the suffering in Paris (Homburg October 3, 1870, and Berlin February 2, 1871). After Triqueti's death in 1874, the Princess wrote 2 long letters (in English, Potsdam June 1 and 17, 1874) to her daughter, Blanche Lee Childe, expressing her friendship and admiration for the baron, whose last work was Wolsey's Chapel; she treasured the drawings she had made for the design of his little chapel. She also refers to the "beautiful objects of art - marbles - of dear Baron de Triqueti" in a letter to Blanche's husband, Edward Lee Childe (May 28, 1886). Plus a L.A.S. from the Duc d'AUMALE, Twickenham April 18, 1866 (2 pages and a quarter in-8, mourning): he asks Baron de Triqueti for his opinion on drawings for sale at Drouot: Hobbema, Porbus, Primatice, and "207 Saint-Aubin - Portraits de Lafayette et du Duc d'Orléans. The Primatice seem particularly interesting"; he asks Triqueti to go and see these drawings and, "if they are beautiful, authentic and affordable", to acquire them for him. Some photographs are enclosed: - a bas-relief by Triqueti placed in the English Protestant chapel in Berlin by the Princess Royal, with a commemorative tablet in dedication; - two bas-reliefs sculpted by the Princess and offered by her to Triqueti: Lady Jane Grey and Mary Stuart Queen of Scots; - a vase painted by the Princess and offered to Triqueti. Plus photo montage Unser Kaiserpaar im Familienkranze. Provenance: Château du Perthuis.