Collection of ten printed testimonials, addressed to Gatty by ten leading figures of the British bar, in support of his application to Lord Kimberley for 'a Colonial legal appointment'.

As one of the authors makes clear, the collection was assembled by Gatty himself, for forwarding to Lord Kimberley and others in support of his application. The ten items are in very good condition, on lightly-aged paper. They are attached to one another by a brass pin in the top left-hand corner. Each is addressed to Gatty in early December, and all are on one side of a loose leaf of 12mo paper. The writers are as follows: Tindal Atkinson ('Sergeant at Law | Judge of County Courts'); John E. Barker ('Recorder of Leeds'); J. H. de Ricci; Thomas Ellison ('Judge of County Courts'); Sir J. B. Maule ('Public Prosecutor'); Lord Norton ('Late W.S.S. for Colonies & President B of Trade'); William Overend, Q.C.; Earl of Wharncliffe ('Chairman of Quarter Sessions West Riding Yorkshire'); Bernard Wake (President of the Sheffield District Incorporated Law Society); Alfred Wills, Q.C. ('Recorder of Sheffield & leader of the Bar on North Eastern circuit' and 'Now Sir Alfred W. Justice of Supreme Court'). Several of the testimonials are fulsome in their praise, and some contain biographical information (for example that of Wills, who practiced with Gatty, and that of Barker, in whose chambers Gatty worked when he was called to the Bar). De Ricci writes 'Since the days when I first knew you at the Temple, I had always marked you as one who would in time to come occupy a foremost place amongst our English Lawyers'. From the residue of Sir Stephen H. Gatty's papers.