LEADER 03748nam 2200541 450 001 9910148690403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-3892-3 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442638921 035 $a(CKB)3710000000922535 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4730400 035 $a(DE-B1597)479367 035 $a(OCoLC)992523840 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442638921 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4730400 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11292559 035 $a(OCoLC)962154683 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000922535 100 $a20161111h19821982 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBenjamin Disraeli letters$hVolume I $e1815-1834 /$fedited by J.A.W. Gunn John Matthews ; senior editor Donald M. Schurman ; associate editor M.G. Wieb 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1982. 210 4$dİ1982 215 $a1 online resource (555 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aLetters of Benjamin Disraeli 311 $a1-4875-9272-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tMaps and Illustrations --$tAcknowledgements --$tIntroduction --$tEditorial Principles and Conventions --$tDisraeli Chronology 1804-1834 --$tAbbreviations in Volume One --$tChronological List of Letters 1815-1834 --$tLetters 1-132 --$tLetters 132-361 --$tAppendix I. Political Notes 1831-2 --$tAppendix II. Aide-Memoire 11-15 November 1834 --$tAppendix III. The Mutilated Diary --$tIndex in Volume One 330 $aThe private letters of a statesman are always inviting material for historians and when he has claim to literary fame as well the correspondence assumes a double significance. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) belonged to an age that gave pride of place to the written word as an instrument of both business and pleasure. This volume includes 363 letters (many previously unpublished) from his school boy days to his establishment in the Tory camp under the patronage of Lord Lyndhurst. Most prominent are Disraeli's letters to his sister, Sarah, with whom he corresponded frequently over several decades. To her he confided his hopes, interspersed with his observations and descriptions of social, literary and political events. The letters to Sarah supply a skeleton around which Disraeli's young manhood can be reconstructed and shed valuable light on the remaining documents in the volume. The correspondence also includes accounts of his tour of the Low Countries and the Rhine in 1824, his adventurous trip to Spain, Greece, the Near East and Egypt in 1830, his tense negotiations with publishers and his campaign to shine as a member of aristocratic society and win political patronage. The letters demonstrate the fine eye for detail and the capacity for self-dramatization and literary conceits which mark his novels. With their annotations they also provide a remarkably detailed account of life in the upper reaches of English society as viewed from below, and of Disraeli's ambitions to enter that life. 606 $aPrime ministers$zGreat Britain$vCorrespondence 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1837-1901$vSources 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPrime ministers 676 $a941.07/092/4 700 $aDisraeli$b Benjamin$f1804-1881,$0188880 702 $aGunn$b J. A. W$g(John Alexander Wilson),$f1937- 702 $aWiebe$b M. G$g(Melvin George),$f1939- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910148690403321 996 $aBenjamin Disraeli letters$92285857 997 $aUNINA