after Benoliel Collection, add Address (envelope only in unknown catalogue): Arthur Helps Esquire | Privy Council Office | Downing Street | S.W. PM 3 May 70.2
1. Arthur Helps (1813-75; Dictionary of National Biography), Clerk to the Privy Council since 1860 and miscellaneous writer; knighted 1872: see Pilgrim Letters 7, p. 236n.
2. The letter concerns CD’s invitation to the Queen’s Ball, 17 May: in the event he was not well enough to attend.
