Anecdotes and accounts, numbers 1-49, by Disraeli, c.1825-1863, composed 1860s and earlier (many undated)

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Dep. Hughenden 26/2

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Anecdotes and accounts, numbers 1-49, by Disraeli, mainly of eminent people he had met, or important events, c.1825-1863, composed 1860s and earlier (many undated), including:

(fols. 1-2) the Duke of Wellington
(fols. 8-10) his visits to Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford in 1825
(fols. 23, 39-44, 135v-138v) visits to Paris in 1842-1843 and 1856-1857
(fols. 26a-30, 53-57) Louis Philippe
(fols. 48-50, 133v-140v, 154) Napoleon III
(fols. 65-67, 120-125) Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
(fols. 84-94) Lord Stanley's abortive ministry of 1851
(fols. 87v-88) Queen Victoria's early disapproval of Disraeli
(fols. 95-104) Lord Derby's first administration in 1851

There is a list of 77 subjects of the anecdotes (covering most of them) in the 1968 catalogue, pp. 3-4; and a summary and index in Dep. Hughenden 26/4.