Autograph letter signed by Robert Lowe, Lord Sherbrooke about Charles Dickens

SHERBROOKE, Lord [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke 1811-1982]. Autograph letter signed referring to Charles Dickens.
 
Sherbrooke, Sept. 22nd [post 1880].
 
1 sheet folded, written in ink on 1 side only, 175 x 115 mm, on monogrammed paper. Old fold marks; very good.
 
A note concerning Charles Dickens. Lord Sherbrooke writes to an unidentified correspondent declining a request, explaining that he “had only the slightest acquaintance with Charles Dickens.”
Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke (1811-1892), was one of the major political figures of Victorian Britain, serving under Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary before his elevation to the peerage in 1880. Brilliant but notoriously abrasive, Lowe was among the most formidable parliamentary debaters of his generation and became closely associated with opposition to electoral reform and mass democracy.