Autograph Letter Signed to Lady Eastlake.

English banker and economist (1796-1883). The recipient (1809-93) was a writer, and wife of the President of the Royal Academy, Sir Charles Eastlake. Three pages, 12mo. Very good on lightly creased and slightly discoloured paper. Shaky hand. He thanks her for her life of Mrs Grote. 'I shall read it with pleasure as coming from your pen - but at the same time with that <?> interest which must always accompany the <?> recollection of the sayings and doings of a Friend who is no longer amongst us. | My daughter & Col: L. L. have just returned to me from a months Tour in the Pyrenees and as far as Madrid.' 'We are now settling down to the calm enjoyments of autumnal evenings - they to the narration of all the incidents <?>, and I, the Old Man, to the pleasures of listening and enjoying thro' others the scenes which I cannot visit in person'. Signed 'Overstone'.