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Appendix A: The genesis of the Daily Telegraph ‘interview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2009

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page 293 note 1 Papers concerning the Daily Telegraph Incident, Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS. Eng. hist. d. 256. All manuscripts and typescripts of the years 1907–8 mentioned in the footnotes to Appendix A are in this collection. Mr Alan Palmer has used the documents in the collection for his account of the incident in The Kaiser (1978)Google Scholar, from which I have greatly profited.

page 293 note 2 Montagu-Stuart-Wortley to Editor, 7 July 1930, Daily Telegraph, 8 07 1930.Google Scholar

page 293 note 3 Palmer, , op. cit., p. 129.Google Scholar

page 293 note 4 Tyrrell, to Montagu-Stuart-Wortley, Violet, 8 11 1907.Google Scholar

page 294 note 1 I have been unable to identify with certainty the author of the endorsement. It may, however, have well been Montagu-Stuart-Wortley's daughter, Louise, wife of Sir Percy Loraine.

page 294 note 2 Montagu-Stuart-Wortley's movements can be deduced from his letter of 1 Dec. to his wife, quoted below.

page 294 note 3 Ibid; see also below.

page 294 note 4 Ibid.

page 295 note 1 Ibid.

page 295 note 2 Rodd, J. R., Social and Diplomatic Memories, 1902–1919 (1925), p. 101.Google Scholar

page 295 note 3 Montagu-Stuart-Wortley to his wife, 2 Dec. 1907.

page 295 note 4 Montagu-Stuart-Wortley to his wife, 7 Dec. 1907.

page 295 note 5 August zu Eulenburg to Montagu-Stuart-Wortley, 14 June 1908.

page 295 note 6 Daily Telegraph, 8 07 1930.Google Scholar

page 295 note 7 Montagu-Stuart-Wortley to Wilhelm II, 23 Sept. 1908 (copy); Wilhelm II to Montagu-Stuart-Wortley, 15 Oct. 1908.

page 296 note 1 Daily Telegraph, 8 07 1930Google Scholar. The role ascribed by Montagu-Stuart-Wortley to Firth has been attributed by several historians to Harold Spender. However, there seems to be no reason to doubt Montagu-Stuart-Wortley's statement concerning Firth, who was a member of the staff of the Daily Telegraph both in 1908 and 1930.

page 296 note 2 Typescript, undated, MS. Eng. hist. d. 256, f. 43.

page 296 note 3 For a good account of what happened to the typescript in Germany see Cecil, L., The German Diplomatic Service 1871–1914 (Princeton, 1976), p. 304Google Scholar, to which I am much indebted.

page 296 note 4 The typescript bears a number of corrections in ink, presumably made by Klehmet, and a few minor ones in pencil, in the handwriting of Montagu-Stuart-Wortley.

page 296 note 5 Wilhelm II to Montagu-Stuart-Wortley, 15 Oct. 1908.

page 297 note 1 Lawson, to Montagu-Stuart-Wortley, , 28 10 1908.Google Scholar