Benjamin Disraeli Letters

'An exemplary volume. The quality of the scholarship is extremely high.' -- Jonathan Parry, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge 'The correspondence in this volume will be of interest to everyone who studies Victorian politics. The editors leave practically no stone unturned - no character unidentified, no context unexplained, no cross-reference unnoted.' -- Padraic C. Kennedy, Department of History, York College of Pennsylvania

The volume contains 648 of Disraeli’s letters, 510 of them never before published and all copiously annotated – often with the other side of the correspondence included.

In February 1868 Benjamin Disraeli became the fortieth prime minister of Great Britain. The tenth volume of the Benjamin Disraeli Letters series is devoted exclusively to Disraeli’s copious correspondence during that momentous year. The volume contains 648 of Disraeli’s letters, 510 of them never before published and all copiously annotated – often with the other side of the correspondence included.

This volume constitutes a unique record of Disraeli’s rise to power and of the inner workings of the Victorian political scene, all of it recorded in intimate detail. A vast project which the Times Literary Supplement has called “a monument to scholarship,” the Benjamin Disraeli Letters volumes are an essential resource for the study of nineteenth-century politics, history, literature, and the arts.