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JEBB, LADY, With Dearest Love to All: The Life and Letters of Lady Jebb, ed. Mary Reed Bobbitt, London, Faber, 1960.

KENNEDY, A. L., Salisbury, 1830–1903: Portrait of a Statesman, London, Murray, 1953.

KIPLING, RUDYARD, Something of Myself, London, Macmillan, 1951.

LAMBTON, HON. GEORGE, Men and Horses I Have Known, London, Butterworth, 1924.

LEE, SIR SIDNEY, King Edward VII, 2 vols., New York, Macmillan, 1927.

LESLIE, SHANE, The End of a Chapter, New York, Scribner’s, 1916.

LONDONDERRY, MARCHIONESS OF, Henry Chaplin: A Memoir, London, Macmillan, 1926.

LOWELL, ABBOTT LAWRENCE, The Government of England, 2 vols., New York, Macmillan, 1908.

LUCY, SIR HENRY, Diary of a Journalist, New York, Dutton, 1920.

——, Memories of Eight Parliaments, 1868–1906, London, Heinemann, 1908.

LYTTELTON, EDITH, Alfred Lyttelton, London, Longmans, 1917.

MACKINTOSH, ALEXANDER (a parliamentary correspondent for the provincial press), From Gladstone to Lloyd George, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1921.

MAGNUS, SIR PHILIP, Edward VII, New York, Dutton, 1964.

——, Gladstone, New York, Dutton, 1954.

MARSH, EDWARD, A Number of People, New York, Harper, 1939.

MELBA, NELLIE, Melodies and Memories, New York, Doran, 1926.

MIDLETON, EARL OF (ST. JOHN BRODRICK), Records and Reactions, London, Murray, 1939.

MONEY, SIR LEO GEORGE CHIOZZA, M.P., Riches and Poverty, 10th rev. ed., London, Methuen, 1911.

MORLEY, JOHN, VISCOUNT, Recollections, 2 vols., New York, Macmillan, 1917.

MOUNT, CHARLES MERRILL, John Singer Sargent, London, Cresset, 1957.

NEVILL, RALPH, London Clubs, London, Chatto and Windus, 1911.

NEVINS, ALLAN, Henry White, New York, Harper, 1930.

NEVINSON, HENRY W., Changes and Chances, New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1923.

——, More Changes and Chances, New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1925.

NEWTON, LORD, Lord Lansdowne, London, Macmillan, 1929.

——, Retrospection, London, Murray, 1941.

NICOLSON, HAROLD, Helen’s Tower, London, Constable, 1937.

NORDAU, MAX, Degeneration, tr., New York, Appleton, 1895.

PLESS, DAISY, PRINCESS OF, Better Left Unsaid, New York, Dutton, 1931.

PONSONBY, ARTHUR, The Camel and the Needle’s Eye, London, Fifield, 1910.

——, The Decline of Aristocracy, London, Unwin, 1912.

*PONSONBY, SIR FREDERICK (First Lord Syonsby), Recollections of Three Reigns, New York, Dutton, 1952.

PONSONBY, SIR HENRY, His Life from His Letters, ed. Arthur Ponsonby, New York, Macmillan, 1943.

RAVERAT, GWEN, Period Piece, New York, Norton, 1952.

RIBBLESDALE, THOMAS, LORD, Impressions and Memories, London, Cassell, 1927.

RONALDSHAY, EARL OF, Life of Lord Curzon, 3 vols., London, Benn, 1928.

RUSSELL, GEORGE W. E., Prime Ministers and Some Others: A Book of Reminiscences, New York, Scribner’s, 1919.

*SACKVILLE -WEST, V., The Edwardians, London, Hogarth, 1930.

SITWELL, SIR OSBERT, Left Hand, Right Hand, Boston, Little, Brown, 1944.

——, Great Morning, London, Macmillan, 1948.

STRACHEY, JOHN ST. LOE (editor of the Spectator), The Adventure of Living, New York, Putnam’s, 1922.

VICTORIA, QUEEN, Letters, ed. G. E. Buckle, Vol. III, 1896–1901, New York, Longmans, 1932.

*WARWICK, FRANCES, COUNTESS OF, Life’s Ebb and Flow, New York, Morrow, 1929. (Notes refer to this book unless otherwise stated.)

——, Discretions, New York, Scribner’s, 1931.

WHARTON, EDITH, A Backward Glance, New York, Appleton-Century, 1934.

WILDE, OSCAR, Letters, ed. Rupert Hart-Davis, New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1964.

WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE, RICHARD GREVILLE VERNEY, LORD, The Passing Years, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, n.d.

WILSON -FOX, ALICE, The Earl of Halsbury, Lord High Chancellor, London, Chapman & Hall, 1929.

*WYNDHAM, GEORGE, Life and Letters, ed. J. W. MacNeil and Guy Wyndham, 2 vols., London, Hutchinson, n.d.

YOUNG, KENNETH, Arthur James Balfour, London, Bell, 1963.

Notes

1 “An almost embarrassing wealth”: H. H. Asquith, I, 273, 275.

2 “Nerve storms”: Kennedy, 353.

3 Family threw cushions: Frances Balfour, I, 311.

4 “Poor Buller”: Young, 168; talking to Lord Roberts: Russell, 54–55.

5 Horse an “inconvenient