Autograph Letter Signed ('F D Maurice') from the Christian Socialist and theologian F. D. Maurice [John Frederick Denison Maurice] to his publisher, regarding J. H. MacMahon's 'highly creditable' edition of Aristotle's Metaphysics.

1p., 12mo. Fair, on lightly-aged paper, laid down on a grey paper backing. Addressed to 'My dear Macmillan. He begins by asking: 'Could you do anything in this matter?' He considers 'Mr. McMahon's Edition of Aristotle's Metaphysics a highly creditable & conscientious work'. In a postscript he gives his opinion that 'The Letters [...] will fill rather more space than the Sermon'. According to the Oxford DNB, Maurice was the firm's 'first truly prolific author', and was referred to by Alexander Macmillan as 'their prophet'. As 'an influential figure in Cambridge', Maurice drew 'other scholars to the young firm' and introduced the publishers his former pupil Charles Kingsley.