Alexandra's letter to Princess Victoria, dated December 25, 1894

Alexandra wrote this letter to her sister, Princess Victoria, Marchioness of Milford Haven, on December 25, 1894.

Source:

The Life and Tragedy of Alexandra by Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden.

Chapter 5, Marriage and First Year in Russia, 1894-1895

http://www.alexanderpalace.org/2006alix/chapter_V.html

https://archive.org/details/lifetragedyofale00sofi/page/50

The letter:

Dec. 25, 1894.
I wish I could slip over and peep into your rooms and little garden — how glad I am that I know the dear place, so can picture you to myself there. Do give Mr. Kerr my very best wishes for the New Year and kind messages. Are there still so many snails on the bushes which you used to have to pick off with the little gardener boy? And have you taken Spiridon without moustache?

I long to know everything you are doing. It was too hard you could not be here for our wedding. But how utterly contented and happy I am with my beloved Nicky you can well imagine, and that helped me over my sad feeling being absent from my old home for Xmas and beginning the New Year in another country. Our Xmas will, of course, be a perfectly quiet one, which is in every way pleasanter.

Above: Alexandra.

Above: Victoria.