



Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images available at The Internet Archive)







[Illustration: _Alice. 1878_]




                                 ALICE

                        GRAND DUCHESS OF HESSE

                               PRINCESS

                                  OF

                       GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

                    BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH AND LETTERS

                            _WITH PORTRAIT_

                           NEW YORK & LONDON

                          G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS

                        The Knickerbocker Press

                                 1885


                               _Press of
                          G. P. Putnam’s Sons
                               New York_



                               Dedicated

                                  TO

                          HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

                       THE HEREDITARY 