Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent. [Collyer].

Advocate, held courtesy title " Lord" in 1837 until he resigned in 1853. (See Boase.) Two pages, 4to, staining at edges, small tear, text clear and complete. He takes the liberty of introducing a Charles M Laren [Maclaren, see DNB, editor of "The Scotsman"], who expects to pass a month in Rome a few weeks hence . . . [He] is well known here, as a man of great worth & intelligence, & though he is Editor of the most widely circulated Liberal Newspaper in Scotland (which will be no recommendation to you [underlined]) I am quite sure you will not find that he has any of the zeal of a Politician on your side of the Alps." He is taking a holiday from "political labours" to investigate Italian antiquities and geology. Their friend "Empson" would have supported this introduction but, in his absence, "I shall beg his Father-in-law Lord Jeffery, to say a few words for M Laren "& perhaps Mrs Collyer will be pleased to have an autograph of his [Lordship?] to put into her collection.