Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli

CHAPTER EIGHT: THE ROSE AND THE RING

1. George Beauclerk to MAD, 03/08/1867. Dep Hughenden 195/3, fols 57–65.

2. Draft of MAD to George Beauclerk, 07/08/1867. Dep Hughenden 203/2, fol 27.

3. BD to Lord Derby, 18/01/1860. BD Letters, VIII, 13.

4. MAD to Sarah Brydges Willyams, 06/05/1860. Private Collection.

5. BD to William Miles, 11/06/1860. BD Letters, VIII, 39–40.

6. BD to Ralph Disraeli, 05/12/1860. BD Letters, VIII, 73.

7. Charlotte de Rothschild to Leopold de Rothschild, 15/11/1866. The Rothschild Archive, 000/84/3.

8. BD to Sarah Brydges Willyams, 19/01/1861. BD Letters, VIII, 90.

9. MAD to Sarah Brydges Willyams, 10/07/1861. Private Collection.

10. MAD to Sarah Brydges Willyams, 24/03/1862. Private Collection.

11. MAD to Sarah Brydges Willyams, 12/05/1862. Private Collection.

12. MAD to Sarah Brydges Willyams, 01/04/1863. Private Collection.

13. BD to Lord Palmerston, 26/03/1863. BD Letters, VIII, 264.

14. BD to Francis Espinasse, 06/03/1860. BD Letters, VIII, 23.

15. BD to Francis Espinasse, 27/03/1860. BD Letters, VIII, 27–8.

16. BD to Thomas Kebbel, 25/11/1860. BD Letters, VIII, 69.

17. BD to Sarah Brydges Willyams, 04/03/1860. BD Letters, VIII, 260.

18. BD Autobiographical Notes. Dep Hughenden 26/3, fols 5–9.

19. Lady Ely to MAD, 20/03/1860. Dep Hughenden 189/2, fols 208–9.

20. BD to Sarah Brydges Willyams, 21/03/1860. BD Letters, VIII, 261–2.

21. BD Autobiographical Notes. Dep Hughenden 26/3, fols 5–17.

22. MAD to Sarah Brydges Willyams, 24/03/1862; 03/02/1862; 05/11/1862; 26/02/1862. Private Collection.

23. MAD to Sarah Brydges Willyams, 07/10/1861. Private Collection.

24. BD to Sarah Brydges Willyams, 15/09/1863. BD Letters, VIII, 207–8.

25. BD to Sarah Brydges Willyams, 28/09/1863. BD Letters, VIII, 303.

26. BD to John Pakington, 08/11/1862. BD Letters, VIII, 323.

27. BD to Sarah Brydges Willyams, 20/09/1863. BD Letters, VIII, 302.

28. Battersea, Reminiscences, pp. 234–5.

29. BD Autobiographical Notes. Dep Hughenden 26/3, fols 38–40.

30. BD Autobiographical Notes. Dep Hughenden 26/3, passim.

31. MAD to Sarah Brydges Willyams, 17/03/1861. Private Collection.

32. BD to Sarah Brydges Willyams, 30/03/1861. BD Letters, VIII, 106.

33. Thackeray, The Rose and the Ring, p. 129.

34. BD to Sarah Brydges Willyams, 09/12/1862. BD Letters, VIII, 233.

35. Charlotte de Rothschild to Leopold de Rothschild, 07/12/1863. The Rothschild Archive, 000/84/1.

36. Charlotte de Rothschild to Leopold de Rothschild, and to Nathaniel and Leopold de Rothschild, 30/11/1863 and 13/11/1863. The Rothschild Archive, 000/84/1.

37. BD to Lord Derby, 21/11/1863. BD Letters, VIII, 330.

38. BD to Francis Villiers, 02/10/1861. BD Letters, VIII, 143.

39. BD to Sarah Brydges Willyams, 23/02/1863. BD Letters, VIII, 258.

40. BD to MAD, n.d. Dep Hughenden 3/1, fols 119–20.

41. Fraser, Disraeli and his Day, pp. 283–4.

42. Lucy, ‘Sixty Years in the Wilderness’, p. 70.

43. William Gregory, Autobiography, p. 95.

44. Crewe-Milnes, Lord Rosebery, I, 27–9.

45. Rosebery Papers, National Library of Scotland. MS 10187, fol 6.

46. Crewe-Milnes, Lord Rosebery, I, 29.

47. Charlotte de Rothschild to Leopold de Rothschild, 1862–67. The Rothschild Archive, 000/84/2–000/84/4.

48. Morning Post, 08/06/1865. Dep Hughenden 201/2, fol 68.

49. Charlotte de Rothschild to Leopold de Rothschild, 31/12/1866. The Rothschild Archive, 000/84/3.

50. Charlotte de Rothschild to MAD, 09/12/1866. Dep Hughenden 191/3, fols 334–5.

51. Charlotte de Rothschild to Leopold de Rothschild, 21/07/1867. The Rothschild Archive, 000/84/4.

52. Montagu Corry to BD, 29/06/1866. Dep Hughenden 94/1, fols 1–2.

53. Montagu Corry to BD, 02/12/1867. Dep Hughenden 94/1, fols 116–17.

54. Disraeli, Endymion, p. 195.

55. MAD to BD,?23/06/1866. Dep Hughenden 4/2, fol 71.

56. MAD to BD,?23/06/188, 24/07/1866. Dep Hughenden 4/2, fols 73–4, 65–7.

57. Montagu Corry to BD, 24/07/1866. Dep Hughenden 94/1, fols 5–6.

58. Kebbel, Lord Beaconsfield, p. 40.

59. Frances Shelley to MAD, 17/07/1864. Dep Hughenden 192/4, fols 103–4.

60. Skelton, The Table-Talk of Shirley, p. 258.

61. Skelton, The Table-Talk of Shirley, pp. 258–9.

62. Sykes, ‘Strange Story’, pp. 126–7.

63. BD to Ralph Disraeli, 15/04/1867. BD Letters, IX, 299.

64. BD to Montagu Corry, 19/10/[1866]. BD Letters, IX, 184.

65. Mrs Burke to BD, 19/11/1867. Dep Hughenden 202/1, fols 30–1.

66. Eliza Gregory to BD, 20/11/1867. Dep Hughenden 202/1, fols 36–7.

67. William Gladstone to BD, 21/11/1867. Dep Hughenden 202/1, fols 40–1.

68. BD to Queen Victoria, 19/11/1867. BD Letters, IX, 415.

69. The Times, 21/11/1867.

70. MAD to BD, 29/11/1867, Nov 1867. Dep Hughenden 4/2, fols 84–5.

71. BD to MAD, 30/11/1867, 29/11/1867. BD Letters, IX, 427, 424–5.

72. BD, Lothair, pp. 182–3.

CHAPTER NINE: HAPPY ENDING

1. Virginia Edger to BD, 16/12/1872. Dep Hughenden 202/2, fols 93–4.

2. Philip Rose to MAD, 16/01/1868. Dep Hughenden 308/4, fols 76–7.

3. MAD Account Book. Dep Hughenden 314/9.

4. BD to MAD, 28/02/1868. Dep Hughenden 3/2, fols 4–5, 59.

5. Fraser, Disraeli and his Day, p. 52.

6. MAD to Charlotte and Lionel de Rothschild, 25/02/1868. The Rothschild Archive, R/Fam/C/2/10.

7. Charles Clubbe to MAD, 26/02/1868. Dep Hughenden 197/1, fols 28–9.

8. Robert Peel Dawson to MAD, 01/ 03/1868. Dep Hughenden 197/1, fols 22–3.

9. The Times, 26/02/1868.

10. John Denison to MAD, 06/03/1868. Dep Hughenden 189/1, fols 159–60.

11. The Times, 27/02/1868.

12. Blake, Disraeli, p. 487.

13. Dep Hughenden 196/1, fol 187.

14. Morning Herald, 26/03/1868.

15. Charles Freemantle to MAD, 26/03/1868. Dep Hughenden 196/1, fol 153.

16. Queen Victoria Journals. RA VIC/MAIN/QVJ (W). 06/04/1868 (Princess Beatrice’s copies).

17. Reginald Wilberforce, Life of the Right Reverend Samuel Wilberforce, D.D., III, 242. Quoted in Blake, Disraeli, p. 487.

18. Sichel, Disraeli pp. 288, 319.

19. BD to MAD, 27/03/1868 and 14/05/1868. Dep Hughenden 3/2, fols 66, 12.

20. MAD to BD, 25/05/1868. Dep Hughenden 4/2, fol 97.

21. Dorothy Nevill to MAD, 18/03/1868. Dep Hughenden 191/1, fols 229–30.

22. BD telegram to MAD, n.d. Dep Hughenden 3/2, fol 26.

23. Quoted in MAD to BD, 17/09/1868. Dep Hughenden 4/2, fols 105–6.

24. BD to MAD, n.d. Sept 1868. Dep Hughenden 3/2, fols 27–8.

25. MAD to BD, 17/09/1868. Dep Hughenden 4/2, fol 104.

26. MAD to BD, 19/09/1868. Dep Hughenden 4/2, fols 109–10.

27. MAD to BD, 20/09/1868. Dep Hughenden 4/2, fols 111–13.

28. BD to MAD, 14/09/1868. Dep Hughenden 3/2, fols 29–32.

29. BD to MAD, 20/09/1868. Dep Hughenden 3/2, fols 33–6.

30. BD to MAD, 21/09/1868. Dep Hughenden 3/2, fols 37–8.

31. BD to MAD, 23/09/1868. Dep Hughenden 3/2, fols 41–4.

32. MAD to BD, 25/09/1868, 23/09/1868. Dep Hughenden 4/2, fols 119–23; 118a–118b.

33. BD to MAD, 24/09/1868. Dep Hughenden 3/2, fols 45–9.

34. Queen Victoria to the Princess Royal, 29/02/1868. Quoted in Blake, Disraeli, p. 490.

35. MAD to Princess Christian, n.d. May 1848. Quoted in Monypenny and Buckle, Life of Benjamin Disraeli, V, 48.

36. Blake, Disraeli, p. 493.

37. BD to MAD, 25/09/1868. Dep Hughenden 3/2, fols 50–1.

38. MAD to BD, 26/09/1868. Dep Hughenden 4/2, fols 125–7.

39. BD to MAD, 26/09/1868. Dep Hughenden 3/2, fols 52–5.

40. BD to MAD, 28/09/1868. Dep Hughenden 3/2, fol 58.

41. MAD to BD, 28/09/1868. Dep Hughenden 4/2, fols 131–2.

42. Queen Victoria Journals. RA VIC/MAIN/QVJ (W). 23/11/1868 (Princess Beatrice’s copies).

43. General Grey to Queen Victoria, quoted in Robert, Disraeli, p. 515.

44. Queen Victoria Journals. RA VIC/MAIN/QVJ (W). 01/12/1868 (Princess Beatrice’s copies).

45. Queen Victoria to BD, 24/11/1868. Quoted in Monypenny and Buckle, Life of Benjamin Disraeli, V, 100.

46. Lady Brownlow to MAD, 30/12/1868. Dep Hughenden 197/1, fols 61–2.

47. Lord Rosebery to MAD, 02/12/1868. Dep Hughenden 197/1, fols 61–2.

48. Imperial Review, 05/12/1868. Dep Hughenden 201, fol 112.

49. Morning Post, 27/11/1868.

50. Virginia Edger to BD, 29/11/1868. Dep Hughenden 189/2, fols 154–5.

51. Virginia Edger to MAD, 12/04/1869. Dep Hughenden 189/2, fols 158–9.

52. Ralph Disraeli to BD, 26/12/1868. Dep Hughenden 9/2, fols 194–5.

53. Annie Bassett to BD, n.d. Dep Hughenden 8/2, fols 92–7.

54. John Bull, 28/11/1868. Dep Hughenden 201, fol 110.