Original single page autograph letter signed, written on both sides, by Henry, first Baron Brougham and Vaux. The letter is headed Berkley Square, 1867, and addressed to `My dear Chief Justice’, and is a letter of introduction on behalf of a friend who is `desirous of being introduced to the heads of Society and Govt. in your settlement’

There is no indication as to which Chief Justice is addressed, but it is probably that of New South Wales (Sir Alfred Stephen). Brougham, writer, orator, lawyer and politician, was a founding contributor to the Edinburgh Review in 1802. He was fiercely anti-slavery, and prominent in education reform. He defended Queen Caroline in the 1820 court case against King George IV’s accusations of adultery