Prime Ministers’ Pets
Robert Blake, 10 January 1983
Benjamin Disraeli Letters: Vol. I 1815-1834, Vol. II 1835-1837
edited by J.A.W. Gunn, John Matthews, Donald Schurman and M.G. Wiebe.
Toronto, 482 pp., £37.50, June 1982,0 8020 5523 0 Show More
edited by J.A.W. Gunn, John Matthews, Donald Schurman and M.G. Wiebe.
Toronto, 482 pp., £37.50, June 1982,
The Gladstone Diaries: with Cabinet Minutes and Prime Ministerial Correspondence, Vol. VII, January 1869-June 1871, Vol. VIII, July 1871-December 1874
edited by H.C.G. Matthew.
Oxford, 641 pp., £35, September 1982,0 19 822638 1 Show More
edited by H.C.G. Matthew.
Oxford, 641 pp., £35, September 1982,
Gladstone: Vol. I 1809-1865
by Richard Shannon.
Hamish Hamilton, 580 pp., £18, November 1982,0 241 10780 6 Show More
by Richard Shannon.
Hamish Hamilton, 580 pp., £18, November 1982,
H.H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley
edited by Michael Brock and Eleanor Brock.
Oxford, 676 pp., £19.50, November 1982,0 19 212200 2 Show More
edited by Michael Brock and Eleanor Brock.
Oxford, 676 pp., £19.50, November 1982,
“... In reviewing the Gladstone Diaries and the Disraeli Letters I must declare an interest. I am chairman of the committee which superintends the publication of the former and one of the research consultants involved in the latter. But the quality and scholarship of the editors of all these volumes has been so widely acclaimed by others that there is no danger of appearing to give an unwarranted puff to works with which I am connected ... ”
