AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY BRITISH ECONOMIST SAMUEL LOYD JONES, LORD OVERSTONE. by Lord Overstone. Jones, Samuel Loyd - 1857.

OveRstone Park, Northampton, U.K.: 8th September, 1857., 1857.. Very good. - Letter penned in black ink and filling 2 sides of a sheet of cream notepaper folded to form 4 sides approximately 7 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide. Signed "Overstone". There is a small hole in the top inner corner of each side, slightly affecting 1 letter of the text on the 2nd side. There is an ink notation by a collector on the 4th side. Folded 3 times for mailing. Very good.

Samuel Loyd Jones [known as Lord Overstone after 1850] writes to the Lord Mayor of London, politely declining to join a committee unless the mere listing of his name would be helpful by signifying his approval of the project. "As an old man of business I am averse to undertake any office, especially one connected with the collection and administration of pecuniary funds, when I cannot give personal attention to the duties of it...."

Samuel Loyd Jones, Lord Overstone [1796-1883] was a British banker and economist, leader of the Currency School and the main architect of Peel's Banking Act of 1844.