Benjamin Disraeli Letters
Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1848-1851, Volume 5
M.G. WIEBE General Editor
J.B. CONACHER Co-editor
JOHN MATTHEWS Co-editor
MARY S. MILLAR Research Associate
Series: Letters of Benjamin Disraeli
Volume: 5
Copyright Date: 1993
Published by: University of Toronto Press
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442671287
Pages: 592
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442671287
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Benjamin Disraeli Letters
Book Description:

Part of the critically acclaimed Letters of Benjamin Disraeli series. This volume contains or describes letters written by Disraeli between 1848 and 1851.

eISBN: 978-1-4426-7128-7
Subjects: History
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-iv)
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. v-v)
  3. ILLUSTRATIONS
    ILLUSTRATIONS (pp. vi-vi)
  4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (pp. vii-viii)
  5. INTRODUCTION
    INTRODUCTION (pp. ix-xx)

    ‘When Chaos comes,’ Disraeli wrote to the banker Henry Drummond on 4 May 1848, ‘and we have an opportunity of creating order, we may set about working’ to redesign the system of government; ‘at present,’ he added, ‘we must be less methodical, a little more bungling & practical’ (1643a). The motif of imminent disorder only barely held off pervades Disraeli’s personal and political affairs in the years 1848-51 covered by the 600 letters of this volume, a spectre he was not able to dispel as easily as he discounted the prospect of an English revolution in 1848. In every aspect of...

  6. EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES
    EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES (pp. xxi-xxii)
  7. DISRAELI CHRONOLOGY 1848-1851
    DISRAELI CHRONOLOGY 1848-1851 (pp. xxiii-xxxiii)
  8. ABBREVIATIONS IN VOLUME FIVE
    ABBREVIATIONS IN VOLUME FIVE (pp. xxxiv-xl)
  9. Chronological List of Letters 1848-1851
    Chronological List of Letters 1848-1851 (pp. xli-lx)
  10. [Illustrations]
    [Illustrations] (pp. lxi-lxiv)
  11. BENJAMIN DISRAELI LETTERS: 1848–1851
    BENJAMIN DISRAELI LETTERS: 1848–1851 (pp. 3-508)

    Carlton Club [Saturday] 29 January 1848

    TO: LORD GRANBY

    ORIGINAL: BEA [R2-2]

    My dear Lord Granby, The Library at | the Carlton | Jan. 29. 1848 I returned to Grosvenor Gate yesterday evening, a few days earlier than I had intended, in order to catch G[eorge] B[entinck], who, I fancied from a letter just received, was at Harcourt House; but he had fled in the morning to Wimpole.¹

    Had I seen him, we should have conferred on a subject / on wh: I wish now to write to you, but tho’ I would not lose a post, I am scarcely...

  12. APPENDIX I PRE-1848 LETTERS NEWLY FOUND
    APPENDIX I PRE-1848 LETTERS NEWLY FOUND (pp. 509-522)
  13. APPENDIX II ‘De la méditation en Italic’
    APPENDIX II ‘De la méditation en Italic’ (pp. 523-525)
  14. APPENDIX III Lists of possible cabinets
    APPENDIX III Lists of possible cabinets (pp. 526-527)
  15. APPENDIX IV Petition from the Bucks Real Property Society
    APPENDIX IV Petition from the Bucks Real Property Society (pp. 528-529)
  16. APPENDIX V Disraeli’s memoirs, extracts 1848-51
    APPENDIX V Disraeli’s memoirs, extracts 1848-51 (pp. 530-539)
  17. APPENDIX VI Disraeli in Men of the Time
    APPENDIX VI Disraeli in Men of the Time (pp. 540-541)
  18. RECIPIENTS, VOLUME FIVE
    RECIPIENTS, VOLUME FIVE (pp. 542-544)
  19. INDEX TO VOLUME FIVE
    INDEX TO VOLUME FIVE (pp. 545-591)
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