Author:
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Fleetwood Isham Edwards (1842-1910) GCVO, KCB, ISO, Keeper of the Privy Purse to Queen Victoria, 1895-1901 [John Maxwell Heron-Maxwell (1836-1899), Scottish Liberal politician]
Publication details:
Windsor Castle, on cancelled letterhead of the Privy Purse Office, Buckingham Palace, SW. 1 July 1898.
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'.
