Autograph Letter Signed ('Sarah Lyttleton') from Lady Lyttleton to the Rt Hon. Thomas Grenville, expressing Queen Victoria's pleasure at a visit to Stowe House, and her regret at his absence.

4pp., 12mo. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. She begins: 'I could not but tell the Queen how kindly you had expressed the pleasure which the Royal visit at Stowe had given to the Duke & Duchess. - And Her Majesty was exceedingly pleased and flattered - and desired me to tell you from her, how delighted both she & the Prince had been by their reception, & the whole visit; which to Her Majesty & the Prince, had but one drawback - and that was, the not having met you there, which would have realised the great wish they both entertain, of being introduced to you'. Of the Queen's message she states: 'Where a pretty speech is quite sincere, as in the present case, there is a pleasure in conveying it.' She concludes in the wish that Grenville is 'keeping warm by your comfortable library fireside, & do not mind the variety of disagreeable weather we are going through.' Docketed by Grenville 'Ldy Lyttleton | 29 Jan: 1845'. Grenville's splendid collection of books is now in the British Library, with its own shelfmark.