Alice's telegram on Alix coming down with diphtheria, year 1878

Source:

Alice, grand duchess of Hesse, princess of Great Britain and Ireland. Letters to Her Majesty the Queen, 1885

https://archive.org/details/alicegrandduches04alic/page/308

The telegram:

November 12.
Telegram.
This night my precious Aliky has been taken ill.

Above: Alice.

Above: Alix.