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Gladstone and his Diary: ‘Myself, the Worst of All Interlocutors’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Derek Beales
Derek Beales
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Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
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The Historical Journal , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , June 1982 , pp. 463 - 469
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References

1 Herbert to Henry Gladstone, 9 Dec. 1926 (1, xxxiii). The story of the diary and its publication comes from Professor Foot's introduction to vol. 1, esp. pp. xx-xxiv, xxxi-xxxvi. (In giving references to the diary, I have used the minimum form, volume and page numbers only; and I have followed the editors in considering a date reference sufficient.) This article has benefited from the criticism and comments of Mr J. P. Parry.

2 iii, lvi.

3 iii, xxiv n.

4 1, xlvi.

5 Dr Matthew says (v, lx) that the flagellation sign occurs in vols. v and vi only once, on 25 May 1859; but it appears also on 29 May 1857.

6 v, 1-lxv.

7 1, xix.

8 14–16 June 1859.

9 ‘He started On liberty on 10 Mar. 1859, Adam Bede on 16 Apr. 1859, Self-Help on 9 Jan. i860, Silas Marner on 11 May 1861, Lives of the engineers on 23 Jan. 1862, Felix Holt on 12 July 1866 and The English constitution on 18 Feb. 1867.

10 14 Nov. 1859.

11 Also 23 Nov. and 17 Dec. 1860. On 10 Aug. 1861 he started reading The Collegians on which the play was based. I am grateful to Dr S. Lawlor and Mrs S. Edwards for information about this play.

12 7 Apr. 1865.

13 iii, liv.

14 B.L. Add. MS 44093: Acton to Gladstone, 12 Sep. [1866], 1 Jan. 1867, 30 Jan. [1867], 5 Dec. 1867, 11 Feb. 1868, 1 Nov. 1868, 23 Jan. [1869]. Acton MSS, University Library, Cambridge, Box 9: Gladstone to Acton, 6 Dec. 1867, 21 Feb. 1868, 2 Nov. 1868, 27 Nov. 1868. Cf. v, xliv-xlvi.

15 E.g. to Matthew Arnold, England and the Italian question (1 and 2 Aug. 1859); to Lord Ripon (22 June and 1 July 1859).

16 The varied treatment of Penmaenmawr is amusing: 3 Sep. 1855; 1 Sep. 1860; no footnotes for 1859 visits. W. F. Cowper [-Temple] has proved difficult: the first footnote (23 July 1827) got his date of death wrong and gave little other information; a revised attempt (17 Mar. 1859) has his dates as an M.P. wrong; the reader is referred to the earlier note on 29 Aug. 1860.

17 v,515 n.12

18 v, lxxi. The diary entries are correct (3 and 4 Mar. 1859).

19 M. Minghetti, I nun ricordi (3 vols. Turin, 1888–90), esp. III, 228 on his visit to Corfu.

20 Cf. the entries for 25 Nov. 1858 (with footnote), 27 Nov., 27 Dec, 28 Dec. (with footnote), Jan. 1859 (with footnote), 14 Jan., 18 Jan., 21 Jan., 24 Jan., 31 Jan., 3 Feb., 5 Feb., 9 Feb., 14 Feb., 15 Feb., 17 Feb., 18 Feb., 19 Feb., 15 Mar.

21 15 Sep. 1855.

22 In the same passage in 1. 2 ‘from’ would more naturally read ‘for’. On 7 Jan. 1868, 1. would more naturally read ‘of Good Words’.

23 iii, 290, 1. 4.

24 6 July 1859.

25 Hall, Newman, An autobiography (London, 1898), pp. 289–90 (13 Nov. 1897).Google Scholar

26 Gladstone to Acton, 14 Mar. 1863 (Cambridge University Library, Acton MSS, Box 9).

27 Lathbury, D. C. (ed.), Correspondence on Church and religion of William Ewart Gladstone (2 vols. London, 1910), ii, 340: Gladstone to Purcell, 14 Jan. 1896.Google Scholar

28 See 28 July 1863.

29 1, xlviii.

30 McAleer, E. C. (ed.), Dearest Isa: Robert Brouming's letters to Isabella Blagden (Austin and Edinburgh, 1951), p. 178 [19 Nov. 1863]. I owe this reference to Mr A. L. Sanders.Google Scholar

31 iii, xxiv n.

32 E.g. much of the letter of 6 June 1860 to Argyll is printed in Morley, n, 45–6 Most of the entries about Garibaldi's visit in Apr. 1864 are in Morley, 11, 111, 113 and n. 3.