Anecdotes and accounts, numbers 50-77, by Disraeli, mainly 1863-1865, composed 1860s and earlier (many undated)

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Dep. Hughenden 26/3

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Anecdotes and accounts, numbers 51-77, by Disraeli, mainly of eminent people he had met, or important events, mainly 1863-1865, composed 1860s and earlier (many undated) including:

(fols. 1-17) Queen Victoria and other members of the royal family
(fols. 20-1) Richard Cobden
(fols. 26v, 65, 83-85, 88-90) Lord Palmerston and his wife
(fols. 57, 62v, 86) Napoleon III
(fol. 40) Disraeli's workmen at Hughenden
(fol. 78) Louis Philippe
(fols. 99-104, 112v-115v) the Russell family, Dukes of Bedford

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.