An Original Hand Written Letter by Thomas Babington Macaulay. Dated 1845. Autograph Letter thanking Principal Lee for his help and the importance of the University. Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, 1800-1859 was a British historian and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1848, who by his Minute on Indian Education of February 1835 was primarily responsible for the introduction of Western institutional education to India.. Provenance: From the family of autograph collector Emily Mary Rose Lee (1869-1949), wife of Colonel William Crawford Walton (1864-1937). Emily was the daughter of William Lee, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Glasgow from 1874 to 1886, and granddaughter of John Lee (1779-1859), Principal of Edinburgh University from 1840 to 1859. Size is 182m x 114mm. Condition is good. Light marking.