An Original Handwritten Letter Signed by Benjamin Lucraft to Levi Leone. Dated 1872. A letter sending thanks for a copy of the text on statistics “just the thing I wanted”. Benjamin Lucraft 1809-1897 was a famous craftsman chair-carver in London where his radical inclinations led him to be involved in many political movements. Lucraft was a public advocate of Chartism and a founder member, and sometime chairman, of the "General Council of First International" of the International Workingmen's Association. He was the only working-class man elected to the first London School Board in 1870 where he campaigned for free education for all. Levi Leone, 1821-1888. English jurist and statistician. His chief work, History of British Commerce and of the Economic Progress of the British Nation, 1763-1870, is considered to be a partisan account of British economic development. Size is 180mm x 115mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases. Age toned. Edge a little clipped.