Album of autographs, letters, engravings, photographs, and ephemera relating to Queen Victoria, 1827-1900.

An album compiled by Mrs. G.A. Waetzig, a servant in Queen Victoria's household. Album includes autograph samples (in the form of signatures, letters, memoranda, etc.) of Queen Victoria; Prince Albert; their children and their children's spouses; the Queen Dowager (Queen Adelaide, consort of William IV); other European royalty and nobility; and many other noteworthy figures of the mid- to late-Victorian period. An partial index of names is included at the front of the volume. Other contents include programs, tickets, and menus from events relating to the royal household; photographs of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee (1887) and the 1885 wedding of her daughter, Princess Beatrice; engravings of the Queen's homes and various noteworthy people (including Haydn and Mozart); three small sketches of Queen Victoria; textile samples of the wedding dresses of Queen Victoria and Princess Alice; a piece of wood reputed to be from the floor of the room where Beethoven died; 5 autograph letters written by Annie MacDonald, royal dresser to Queen Victoria; and autograph letters written by Queen Adelaide, John Francis Barnett, Edward VII, François Guizot, Josef Gung'l, Viscount Palmerston, Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby, Sims Reeves, Prosper Sainton, Therese Titiens, and the Duke of Wellington, and others. Select items are cataloged in individual records (MA 700.1-30).