McCarthy, Justin (1830-1912). Irish writer and politician; Member of Parliament and advocate of home rule for Ireland. Champion of the Irish Parliamentary Party and other groups. ALS, 3 pp., August, 1890. To C. Robinson, comparing Peel, Melbourne, and Palmerston as statesmen. In part: "I think Peel was by far the greatest statesman of the three; indeed I might go farther to say that he was in my opinion the only great statesman of the three."   Stains from mounting in an old autograph album, but clean, attractive, and near fine.