Dearest Vicky, Darling Fritz (44 page)

4.
Napier Letters, 16/100, V to LN, 11.8.1888.

5.
Royal Archives, VIC/Z 43/7, V to QV, 24.9.1888.

6.
Royal Archives, VIC/Z 43/11, V to QV, 29.9.1888.

7.
Sinclair, 225, V to QV, 18.10.1888.

8.
Pakula, 512, Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse to V, 13.10.1888.

9.
Victoria,
Letters 1886–1901
,I, 443, QV to Lord Salisbury, 24.10.1888.

10.
ibid, I, 441, QV to Lord Salisbury, 15.10.1888.

11.
Napier Letters, 16/102, V to LN, 9.2.1889.

12.
Ernle, 160.

13.
Victoria,
Letters . . . Empress Frederick
, 316, V to QV, 15.6.1888.

14.
ibid, 399, V to QV, 11.1.1890.

15.
Victoria,
Beloved and Darling Child
, 107, V to QV, 10.3.1890.

16.
Victoria,
Empress Frederick . . . Sophie
, 81, V to S, Feb/Mar 1891.

17.
ibid, 137, V to S, 27.1.1893.

18.
ibid, 168, V to S, Apr 1894.

19.
ibid, 174, V to S, u/d.

20.
Empress Frederick: a Memoir
, 353.

21.
Buchanan, 19.

22.
Empress Frederick: a Memoir
, 353.

23.
Buchanan, 19.

24.
Pakula, 563, V to QV, 12.4.1896.

25.
Röhl,
Kaiser and his Court
, 23.

26.
Corti, 343, V to Frau Stockmar, 10.5.1892.

27.
Bülow, I, 1897–1903, 76.

28.
Victoria,
Beloved and Darling Child
, 181–2, V to QV, 16.10.1895.

29.
Ponsonby, F., 21.

30.
Ponsonby, M., 321, Lady Ponsonby to Arthur Ponsonby, 12.2.1893.

31.
Ponsonby, F., 51–2.

32.
Recollections of Three Kaisers
, 130–31.

33.
Bunsen, 214.

34.
Victoria,
Empress Frederick . . . Sophie
, 253, V to S, 23.6.1897.

35.
Mallet, 156, 18.3.1899.

36.
Victoria,
Empress Frederick . . . Sophie
, 336, 339, V to S, u/d.

37.
Pakula, 592, W to E, 9.2.1901.

38.
Reid, 196.

39.
Victoria,
Empress Frederick . . . Sophie
, V to S, 345, u/d.

40.
Longford,
Darling Loosy
, 264, V to Duchess of Argyll, 18.3.1901.

41.
Empress Frederick: a Memoir
, 370.

42.
Epton, 225.

43.
Van der Kiste,
Crowns in a Changing World
, 7, W to E, 24.7.1901.

44.
Teignmouth-Shore, 307.

45.
Poschinger, 450–51.

46.
Balfour, 62–3.

47.
Brook-Shepherd, 255, E to Marquis de Soveral, c.1905.

48.
Leslie, 337.

49.
Barkeley, 309, quoting Bamberger,
Bismarcks grosses Spiel
(1932).

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