[Lady Ampthill, wife of Lord Odo Russell, first British Ambassador to the German Empire.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Emily Russell') to Princess Charlotte [of Prussia], regarding a wedding present of 'the newest style of Minton's china'.

3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once. Begins: 'Dear Princess Charlotte. | May I venture to ask Your Royal Highness's acceptance of a small wedding present from my husband and myself with our most sincere and heartfelt good wishes for Your Royal Highness's future happiness and prosperity.' The present is 'the newest style of Minton's china and this is the first specimen of the kind'. She concludes in conventional style. Beneath the signature, in a contemporary hand (that of the Princess?): 'Lady Ampthill the Wife of the Late Ambassador in Berlin.' The recipient Princess Charlotte of Prussia (Viktoria Elisabeth Auguste Charlotte), married her second cousin Bernhard III of Saxe-Meiningen in 1878, becoming his Duchess Consort. She was a daughter of the Hohenzollern Prince Frederick of Prussia, and through her mother Victoria, Princess Royal, she was the eldest granddaughter of the British monarch Queen Victoria and her consort Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.