W. A. Baillie-Grohman

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. God''s blessing rest upon this house, and after some other signatures of royalties, we read in a childish scrawl Spatz (sparrow) which was the nickname of the Empress Elizabeth''s favorite youngest sister, and the word was written by her hand guided by the Empress''s. What sad interest does not the tragic fate of these two sisters attach to that childish bit of penmanship!