(HELPS, Sir Anthony)

Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon

London John W. Parker and Son 1857, 2 vols. viii, 355, viii, 323 p. 17 cm. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1/2 leather with attractive spine, minor scuffs. Owner's sig. on 1/2 title. Both volumes foxed on the first and last few pages, otherwise clean. A bit of pencil underlining in vol. 2. Ink stain on p. 128 vol. 2. On 9 June 1860, on the retirement of the Hon. W. L. Bathurst, Helps was named clerk of the privy council, a post which he held to his death. Shrewd, singularly clear-headed, highly cultivated, he made it his business to master as matter of personal interest many of the questions that came under the cognisance of the privy council. Thrown by his office into personal intercourse with Queen Victoria, she learnt to appreciate his high qualities, and found in him a staunch, thoughtful, and capable adviser. The queen entrusted him with the revision of Prince Albert's speeches, which were published in 1862, and with the preparation for the press of her ‘Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands’ in 1868, and of her ‘Mountain, Loch, and Glen,’ 1869...In 1847 the first series of ‘Friends in Council’ appeared (3rd ser. 1853). Another series was issued in 1859. Both series consist of dialogues on social and intellectual subjects, written with much earnestness. DNB.

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