Excerpt on Alix from Alice's letter, year 1872

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/256

The letter excerpt:

Christmas Day.
... I am so glad Vicky gave such a flattering account of Baby. She is quite the personification of her nickname 'Sunny' — much like Ella, but a smaller head, and livelier, with Ernie's dimple and expression.

Above: Alice.

Above: Alix.

Excerpt from Alice's letter on Alix, 1872

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/248

The letter excerpt:

August 14.
... Baby is like Ella, only smaller features, and still darker eyes with very black lashes, and reddish-brown hair. She is a sweet, merry little person, always laughing, with a deep dimple in one cheek just like Ernie.

Above: Alice.

Above: Alix.

Excerpt on Alix from her mother's letter to Queen Victoria, year 1872

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/248

The excerpt:

Darmstadt: June 24th.
... I will add Vicky's name to Baby's others, as you propose; and 'Alix' we gave her for 'Alice,' as they murder my name here: 'Aliicé' they pronounce it, so we thought 'Alix' could not so easily be spoilt.

Above: Alice.

Above: Alix.

Alice's letter to Queen Victoria on Alix's birth, year 1872

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/247

Grand Duchess Alice of Hesse, formerly Princess of Great Britain and Ireland (1843-1878), wrote to her mother Queen Victoria after Alix's birth, the letter was written on June 17, 1872.

The letter:

June 17.
Many thanks for your dear letter and kind wishes for the birth of our Baby — a nice little thing, like Ella, only smaller and with finer features, though the nose promises to be long....

Kind Dr. Hofmeister was most attentive; and of course having him was far pleasanter than not, and we owe you great thanks for having sent him. Mrs. Clarke has been all one could wish.

...

We think of calling our little girl 'Alix' (Alice they pronounce too dreadfully in German) 'Helena Louise Beatrice,' and, if Beatrice may, we would much like to have her as godmother.

Above: Alice.

Above: Queen Victoria.

Above: Alix.