Disraeli by Robert Blake

Author:Robert Blake [Robert Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571287550
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2012-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

This is the eternal cry of the diehard whether of the Right or the Left – that the way to his party’s political salvation is to adhere more rigidly than ever to the very principles on which it has suffered defeat. All leaders hear that cry often before their careers end. Most of them ignore it. Disraeli was no exception.

1 Derby Papers, Box 145/5.

2 Surveyor of the Navy, 1848–60. Opposed Stafford over dockyard scandal. See above, 1.

3 Hughenden Papers, Box 109, B/XX/S/182, October 12, 1858.

4 M. & B., iv, 255.

5 Hughenden Papers, Box 96, B/XX/E/145, n.d.

6 ibid., Box 109, B/XX/S/182, October 12, 1858.

7 ibid., Box 110, B/XX/S/237, n.d.

8 ibid., B/XX/S/258, January 5, 1860, Derby to Disraeli. Referring to the events of a year before, Derby noted that Gladstone was now going to do just this, ‘a course which I should have considered advisable when we were in office but was deterred from taking by your strong objections and your estimate of the opposition it would encounter in the House of Commons’.

9 Malmesbury took Disraeli’s view. ‘He contends’, wrote Stanley to Disraeli early in 1853, ‘that the five pounders are democratic, the labourers conservative; therefore if we must go as low as £5 he would rather go on to universal suffrage.’ ibid., Box 111, B/XX/S/588, January 28, 1853.

10 M. & B., iv, 208–9, quoting Disraeli’s speech, March 31, 1859.

11 Hughenden Papers, Box 96, B/XX/E/76, Earle to Disraeli, n.d., but probably November 1858.

12 loc. cit.

13 ibid., Box 104, B/XX/LY/112, December 22, 1858.

14 M. & B., iv, 191.

15 ibid., 192.

16 loc. cit.

17 Hughenden Papers, Box 95, B/XX/D/19, September 11, 1866.

18 Derby Papers, Box 145/6, February 23, 1859.

19 M. & B., iv, 206.

20 Hughenden Papers, Box 104, B/XX/Ly/120.

21 M. & B., iv, 235–6.

22 ibid., 237.

23 Benson and Esher, Letters of Queen Victoria 1887–61, iii, 391, December 10, 1858.

24 M. & B., iv, 218.

25 ibid., 222–3.

26 Hughenden Papers, Box 26, A/X/A/36. For Bidwell, see p. 1, above.

27 See Disraeli’s letter to Derby of June 2, M. & B., iv, 245–6, and Derby’s letter of the same day to the Queen, incorporating Disraeli’s phraseology verbatim, Letters of Queen Victoria, 1837–61, iii, 430–3.

28 Stanmore, Sidney Herbert, ii, 173.

29 ibid., 177.

30 ibid., 185.

31 ibid., 197.

32 Memoirs, ii, 191.

33 Hughenden Papers, Box 101, B/XX/J/73.

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