LEADER 03547nam 2200553 450 001 9910148690503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-3971-7 010 $a1-4426-3954-7 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442639713 035 $a(CKB)3710000000922534 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4730401 035 $a(DE-B1597)479320 035 $a(OCoLC)992489621 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442639713 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4730401 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11292560 035 $a(OCoLC)962157177 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000922534 100 $a20161114h19821982 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aBenjamin Disraeli letters $e1835-1837 /$fedited by J. A. W. Gunn [and three others] 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1982. 210 4$dİ1982 215 $a1 online resource (503 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aBenjamin Disraeli Letters ;$v2 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4875-9273-6 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tEditorial Principles and Conventions -- $tDisraeli Chronology 1835-1837 -- $tAbbreviations in Volume Two -- $tChronological List of Letters 1835-1837 -- $tLetters 362-510 -- $tLetters 510-694 -- $tAppendix -- $tIndex to Volume Two 330 $aThe 334 letters in this volume cover the period from Disraeli's establishment in the Tory camp under the patronage of Lord Lyndhurst to his election to parliament in 1837. The most important issue to which they speak is the course of Disraeli's political ambitions. In 1835 the road to parliament was not yet clear, for he continued to be haunted by troubles from his past. He was beset by charges of opportunism in his Taunton campaign of 1835, and the longest letters here are those to Edwards Beadon written in justification of past conduct; Disraeli had still to learn the truth of his later dictum, 'never explain.' Also, debts contracted many years before continued to plague him, as they would in years to come. He was tempted by a variety of money-making schemes and the later correspondence makes clear just how close he came to permanent ruin at the hands of his creditors in the spring of 1837. Had the fate of debtors' prison materialized it is doubtful that he would ever have been eligible, in law or in reputation, for a parliamentary career. Disraeli's eventual election for Maidstone in the summer of 1837 marked the emergence of his formal public role. Because he set out early and was a long time in attaining his goals, one is tempted to laud his patience. But the record here suggests that it was instead a matter of energy and endurance. This volume of the Letters brings Disraeli to the threshold of the Victorian era and the beginning of his career as a politician. In late 1837 he failed in his maiden speech, but all major successes lay ahead. 606 $aPrime ministers$zGreat Britain$vCorrespondence 606 $aStatesmen$zGreat Britain$vCorrespondence 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPrime ministers 615 0$aStatesmen 676 $a354.410313 700 $aDisraeli$b Benjamin, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0188880 702 $aGunn$b J. A. W. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910148690503321 996 $aBenjamin Disraeli letters$92285857 997 $aUNINA