'Eleven Letters on the Colonies' is a collection of correspondents between Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, referred to in his letters as Viscount Howick, who happened to be the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time. Wakefield, who penned these letters, is considered a key figure in the establishment of the colonies of South Australia and New Zealand (where he later served as a member of parliament). He also had significant interests in British North America, being involved in the drafting of Lord Durham's Report and being a member of the Parliament of the Province of Canada for a short time.
