Autograph Letters, Manuscripts & Historical Documents
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Mar 16, 2023
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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MIKHAILOVICH MICHAEL: (1861-1929) Russian Grand Duke, a grandson of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. A.L.S., Grand Duke Michael, to one side of his attractive personal printed correspondence card, n.p. (Paris), n.d. ('Tuesday'; October 1894), to [Richard] Winslow, in English. The Grand Duke writes, in full, 'I am writing to say that our dinner will be not in “Café-Rick's” but at “Voisin” at 7 ½'. Together with a 12mo table place card for a separate dinner given at the Grand Duke's villa in Cannes, bearing a small gold embossed crown to the upper left corner and annotated Mr. Winslow in the Grand Duke's hand in bold, dark fountain pen ink. Accompanied by two fragments of pages from an album kept by the American socialite Richard Winslow and annotated in his hand with various comments regarding the dinners, the first hosted by Grand Duke Michael at the Café Voisin in October 1894, listing several other individuals present and noting that they went to see Falstaff at the Opera Comique, and the second in Cannes observing that afterwards they participated in a game of whist. G to VG, 4
