[ Samuel March Phillipps, legal writer and civil servant. ] Three Letters in a secretarial hand, all signed by him ('S M Phillipps'), to Seymour Teulon, regarding his attempts to present an 'Address of the Borough of Southwark' at a levee.

Author: 
Samuel March Phillipps (1780-1862), legal writer and civil servant, Permanent Under-Secretary for Home Affairs [ Lord John Russell; Seymour Teulon, chairman, Southwark Reform Association ]
Publication details: 
All three from Whitehall. 18 and 22 July 1837, and 10 February 1838.
£80.00
SKU: 18482

The three items in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. The first two, both on black-bordered paper, are each 1p., 4to; the third is 1p., folio. In the three letters Teulon's address is given as Dean Street, Southwark. The first two appear to be in Phillipps's hand, but the matter is uncertain. Phillipps writes on behalf of the Home Secretary Lord John Russell, to whom he acted as private secretary. In the first letter he informs Teulon that he is 'too late' (both words underlined) to present 'the Address of the Borough of Southwark' at the levee to be held the following day, that Russell is 'not aware when another Levee will be bidden', but that he will, 'if the Address is sent to him, have great pleasure in taking the earliest Opportunity of laying it before the Queen'. The second letter concerns the notification of the next levee in the London Gazette. In the final letter Phillipps states that 'the directions relating to Levees issue from The Lord Chamberlain's office, To whom His Lordship begs to refer you'.