^{page x note 1} F.O. 362/1–5 and 97/621, being some of the private correspondence with British representatives in America, Austria and France, 1870–74, and Morocco, 1880–85.

^{page x note 2} Both G.D. 29.

^{page x note 3} G.D. 29/32–212.

^{page x note 4} The boxes of these papers are G.D. 29/18–31 ; they contain also papers belonging to the years before 1868.

^{page x note 5} Add. MSS. 44086–835 ; see A. T. Bassett, Descriptive Catalogue, Add. MS. 44835B.

^{page x note 6} Cf. the accounts for the first and second administrations respectively of Lord Kilbracken, Reminiscences (1931), pp. 87–90, and G. Leveson Gower, Years of Content, 1858–86 (1940), pp. 162–5. See also E. W. Hamilton, Mr. Gladstone (1898), pp. 79–83.

^{page x note 7} Between 1872 and 1874 when the principal secretary, F. C. Cavendish, was a member of parliament, there were two assistants who did the real work, W. B. Gurdon, who had assisted Algernon West, Cavendish's predecessor, and A. Godley. When Gladstone became chancellor of the exchequer in 1873 E. W. Hamilton joined his private staff.

^{page x note 8} Add. MSS. 44536–48 for 1868–85.

^{page xi note 1} Lord Kilbracken, Reminiscences (1931), p. 102.

^{page xii note 1} Add. MSS. 44165–80.

^{page xii note 2} G.D. 29/57–62, G.D. 29/123–9.

^{page xii note 3} G.D. 29/32–45.

^{page xiii note 1} Add. MSS. 44416–91 for 1868 to July 1885.

^{page xiii note 2} 6 volumes : G.D 29/68–70, G.D. 29/143–5.

^{page xiii note 3} Add MSS. 44756–69 for Gladstone's political and other memoranda 1868–85 ; Add. MSS. 44637–46 for notes on the cabinets for 1868–85.

^{page xiv note 1} The Granville papers do not contain any comparable series of letters exchanged with colonial governors for his period as colonial secretary, though his successors, Lords Kimberley and Carnarvon, seem to have carried on a very full private correspondence with the colonial governors.

^{page xvi note 1} 20 April 1891, Add. MS. 44094, fo. 170. I have to thank Mr. M. R. D. Foot for this, and number of other references below.

^{page xvi note 2} Cf. d'Harcourt to Granville, 5 Aug. 1872, G.D. 29/89.

^{page xvi note 3} Granville to Lyons, private, 10 Aug. 1872, G.D. 29/109.