Lord John Russell, Pembroke Lodge, to the author of an essay on Thomas Macaulay, praising his writing and hoping he would edit a book by Macaulay with his essay as an introduction. Russell also cites his praises for Macaulay, then adding “perhaps in painting his characters he made his lights too bright, & his shade too deep, a defect perhaps inseparable from his wonderful powers of …” November 2, 18??. Macaulay died on December 28, 1859.