The Gladstone-Granville Correspondence

Reprint of this private correspondence with a new introduction which places Ramm's edition in its historical and literary context.

Now available in a single volume, this Reprint contains private correspondence conducted between Gladstone and his Foreign Secretary, Lord Granville, during the years 1868–1876. It is a private commentary on colonial and foreign policy and provides the reader with an important insight into the lives of the two correspondents.Agatha Ramm's two volumes containing correspondence between Gladstone and his Foreign Secretary, Lord Granville, conducted at the height of British colonial power during the years 1868–1876, were published originally in 1952. This correspondence is now available in a single volume, and lends the mass of government papers usually studied by historians 'the enlivening touch'. The correspondence contained in the volumes is between two men who wrote to each other privately, but about matters which were, as Professor Matthew states in his introduction, 'the very stuff of official diplomatic exchange'. It also deals with the period of opposition during Disraeli's government of 1874-1880, as well as a wide range of non-political matters, in which the two men were active whether in or out of government. This Reprint gives the reader a valuable insight into the two correspondents and will, therefore, be of great interest to scholars of British history.