Autograph Letter Signed ('F. I. Edwards') from Sir Fleetwood Edwards, Keeper of the Privy Purse to Queen Victoria, to 'Mr. Heron Maxwell' [the Liberal politician John Maxwell Heron-Maxwell?], conveying the Queen's disapproval of a proposed article.

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with minor traces of grey paper mount adhering. Edwards writes that he has 'thought further over the Subject upon which you called the other day and have referred back to similar requests. The latter have been very numerous to write upon various subjects and have been uniformly declined'. Having made 'enquiries' with 'those who know', he is 'confirmed in the opinion that the Queen would prefer that the article you suggest upon H.M.'s godchildren should not be written'. As a consequence he considers that it would be 'useless for me to put the request before H.M. who I feel could only give the same reply as hitherto'. As Maxwell asked for his opinion, he feels that he 'woudl sooner that I gave it frankly'.