Alice's telegram on Alix's and sisters' 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/309

The telegram:

November 13.
Telegram.
Aliky tolerable. Darling May very ill; fever so high. Irène has got it too. I am miserable; such fear for the sweet little one!

Above: Alice.

Above: Alix.

Above: May.

Above: Irène.