[Lord John Russell on the General Assembly of the Leeward Islands, 1840, 1841.] Two printed Colonial Office documents: copy of letter to him by J. Campbell and T. Wilde, ‘Her Majesty’s Attorney and Solicitor General’, and covering circular dispatch.

Both items scarce: no other copy of either traced. Disbound from a volume and paginated in manuscript. In good condition, lightly aged. ONE: ‘Copy’ of letter to ‘The Right Honorable Lord John Russell’, signed in type ‘J. CAMPBELL, / T. WILDE.’ 2pp, 8vo. Paginated in manuscript 27-28. Printed in copperplate font. Begins: ‘My Lord, / We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Vernon Smith’s letter of the 3d inst. transmitting to us, by your Lordship’s directions, a copy of a letter from Sir Wm Colebrooke respecting the right of the Governor General of the Leeward Islands to issue writs for a General Assembly of the Leeward Islands’.. They set out the grounds for their opinion that ‘the separate Legislatures of the Leeward Islands have no right to be consulted in calling a General Assembly’. TWO: Lithographed ‘Circular’, dated from Downing Street, 15 April 1841. 1p, 8vo. Paginated in manuscript 25. With manuscript heading ‘General Assembly of the Leeward Islands’ and also in manuscript at end (not Russell’s hand): ‘/sd/ John Russell’. Printed in copperplate font. Transmitting ‘Papers laid before Parliament on the subject of the General Assembly of the Leeward Islands’ (not present), as well as Item One: ‘a copy of the opinion of Her Majesty’s Attorney and Solicitor General on the Questions of Law which arose during the discussion of this subject in 1838’.