DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER�S VISITORS� BOOK, presumably for Gloucester House, Piccadilly, from January 1847 to 31 May 1849, daily dated entries, with approximately 9,200 visitors� names, occasionally with addresses, in ink, on over 420pp, one leaf loose, a few names cut out.

Hardcover. Very good. The numerous visitors, some foreign, were drawn mainly from royalty, aristocracy, landed gentry, clergy, politicians, diplomats, the army and navy, and included Princess Marie of Baden, Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Baron de Bunsen, Earl and Countess Brownlow, Captain Brownrigg, Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, Earl Cadogan, Sir and Lady Stratford Canning, Archbishop of Canterbury, Juan Carlos de Borbon, Prince Castelcicala, Earl and Countess of Craven, Miss Burdett Coutts, Lady Dalrymple, Col. & Mrs Dawson Damar, Count and Countess Dietrichstein, Mrs Lane Fox, Lord Fitzroy, Countess of Gainsborough, W. & Mrs Gladstone, Duchess of Iverness, Countess of Jersey, Count Keilmansegg, Col. Lascelles, Lady Caroline Legg, Prince Leiningen, Princess Lichenstein, Princess Lieven, Mrs Augustus Liddell, Marchioness of Londonderry, Countess of Mansfield, Fox Maule, Princess Metternich, Miss Mitford, Countess of Mornington, Rev. & Mrs Evan Napean, Baron von Neumann, William Prince of Orange, Sir George & Lady Otway, Lord & Lady Palmerston, Princess of Parma, Lady Augusta Paulett, Sir Robert and Lady Peel, Col. Lord Rokeby, Earl and Countess of Rosebery, Earl and Countess of St Germans, Marquis of Salisbury, Earl of Shaftesbury, Duke of Saxe Weimar, Rev. Walter Sneyd, Countess of Verulam, Lady Clementina Villiers, Earl and Countess of Waldegrave, Countess de la Warre, Earl and Countess of Wemyss, Marchioness of West Meath, Lady Wilde, the Dean of Windsor, and the Earl and Countess of Zetland.  Large folio (12.75 x 7.5in) original straight-grained green morocco, �Her R.H. The D. of Gloucester� in gilt on front cover, worn, on front endpaper, �Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester Jany. 1st 1847�, A remarkable record of the social life of a widowed princess. The sheer number of visitors confirms the belief that Mary was one of the most sociable and amiable of George III�s children. From this book, it would appear she was receiving on average about twenty guests a day, and sometimes over thirty. Perhaps the number of foreign royalty was swelled by the upheavals in Europe in 1848.Gloucester House was purchased by Prince William shortly before his marriage. It is where Princess Mary died. Queen Victoria wrote acknowledging how she had become the matriarch of the family, �Her age, and her being a link with bygone times and generations . . . rendered her more and more dear and precious to us all, and we all looked upon her as a sort of grandmother'. (Martin, 4.27). No Jacket issued