An Original Handwritten Letter Signed by Economist Henry Fawcett to Sir Henry James Maine. Dated 1883. A letter to Maine (His Old Master) asking him to send the Trinity Hall Cambridge Statutes as he had mislaid them. The letter then discusses his recent visit to the College and meeting old friends. Henry Fawcett 1833-1884 was a British academic, statesman and economist. In 1863, Henry Fawcett published his Manual of Political Economy and became Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge. He made himself a recognised authority on economics, his works on which include The Economic Position of the British Labourer (1865) and Labour and Wages. Through his campaigning for women's suffrage, Henry Fawcett met Elizabeth Garrett, to whom he proposed in 1865. She rejected the proposal to concentrate on becoming a doctor at a time when female doctors were extremely rare. In 1867, Fawcett married Elizabeth's younger sister Millicent Garrett.Sir Henry James Sumner Maine 1822-1888, was a British Whig comparative jurist and historian. He is famous for the thesis outlined in his book Ancient Law that law and society developed "from status to contract." According to the thesis, in the ancient world individuals were tightly bound by status to traditional groups, while in the modern one, in which individuals are viewed as autonomous agents, they are free to make contracts and form associations with whomever they choose. Because of this thesis, Maine can be seen as one of the forefathers of modern legal anthropology, legal history and sociology of law. Size is 175mm x 11omm. Condition is good. Light folding creases. Rear flyleaf with gum marks.