[Lord Brougham, Lord Chancellor.] Autograph Letter Signed, insisting that ‘M. D’ [‘M. P’?] visit the family estate in Westmoreland, where his mother awaits.

2pp, 12mo. On grey paper. In good condition, lightly aged, in neatly-trimmed remains of windowpane mount. Headed ‘Private’, addressed to ‘My dear M. D [M. P?]’, and signed ‘H. Brougham’. Thirty-four lines of text, in a somewhat challenging hand, resulting in the following tentative reading. (In his 1995 biography of Brougham’s later life, Trowbridge H. Ford describes him ‘dashing off so many letters as the new session approached, with his bad handwriting getting worse with every stroke, that only the greatest patience can lead to deciphering them’.) As it is very possible that the letter he sent to [illegible location] may not have reached the recipient, he writes to ‘insist on your ot going on but coming up here where my mother expects you & will shew you our [Lions?]’. He finds it ‘very vexatious that my letter some days [before?] never reached you in which I mentioned that I must set out early [Wedy?] for Liverppol where I shall be kept till Saturday at our Social Science Congress’. He asks to be written to at ‘Richmond Hill, Liverpool’ and concludes: ‘The carriage will be at the station for you at each time a train arrives, to brig you up whether you come today or tomorrow’.