OCCULTISM - Marie Duchesse de POMAR[London 1830-1895,Spiriti - Lot 328

OCCULTISM - Marie Duchesse de POMAR[London 1830-1895,Spiritist and occultist, born Maria de Mariategui, she married General Conde de Medina-Pomar and lived with him in Cuba where he owned plantations, widowed, She settled in England and married the Earl of Caithness, and it was at the family castle in Caithness, in the Highlands, that she experienced the first apparitions of Mary Stuart, who entrusted her with the mission of devoting herself heart and soul to the spiritual progress of humanity, She became the Queen's medium and prophetess, identifying herself with her over time; widowed again in 1881, she settled in Paris, where she ran a spiritualist salon in her private mansion) / Autograph letter signed "Duchesse de Pomar", 1 p small in-4, headed "Marie" with ducal crown and motto "In my en dis my begining", "En ma fin est mon commencement", the motto ofMarie Stuart, Paris, November 25 (year1887marked by another hand)