An Original Third Person Handwritten Letter Signed by Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin Richard Whately to Levi Leone. Dated 1859. A letter to Mr. Yates thanking him for sending his paper on the decimal system. Sending it along to the Political Economy Professor here [Levi] and asking for consideration to the Dublin Statistical Society. Richard Whately 1787-1863 was an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was a leading Broad Churchman, a prolific and combative author over a wide range of topics, a flamboyant character, and one of the first reviewers to recognise the talents of Jane Austen. 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 130mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases. Blank rear partially removed.