Selections from the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton, Vol. I
A selection from Acton’s large mass of correspondence including a number to Gladstone on the budget, foreign affairs, Acton’s library, and women’s suffrage.
Selections from the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton, edited with and Introduction by John Neville Figgis and Renald Vere Laurence. Vol. I Correspondence with Cardinal Newman, Lady Blennerhassett, W.E. Gladstone and Others (London: Longmans, Gree and Co., 1917).
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- Editor: Reginald Vere Laurence
- Editor: John Neville Figgis
- Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton
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Table of Contents
- PREFATORY NOTE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ERRATA
- INTRODUCTION
- LORD ACTON’S CORRESPONDENCE
- I.—: EARLY LETTERS
- Acton to Granville on his Studies
- II.—: ECCLESIASTICAL CORRESPONDENCE
- A.—: NEWMAN, DÖLLINGER, DUPANLOUP
- Sir John Acton to John Henry Newman.
- J. H. Newman to Sir John Acton.
- From Sir John Acton.
- From Sir John Acton.
- From Dr. Newman.
- From Dr. Newman to Mr. Monsell.
- Dupanloup.
- To Sir Roland Blennerhassett
- B.—: THE VATICAN COUNCIL AND THE VATICAN DECREES
- To the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone
- Memorandum Appended
- LETTERS TO THE TIMES ON THE VATICAN DECREES
- “The Times,” Monday, November 30, 1874
- Draft of Reply to Cardinal Manning.
- III.: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
- A.—: MR. GLADSTONE
- (a): BUDGETS
- (b): UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
- (c): ACTON’S PEERAGE
- (d): ACTON AND OFFICE
- (e): BRITISH MUSEUM
- (f): IRELAND
- On the Debate on the Address, Feb. 1882.
- (g): FOREIGN AFFAIRS
- (h): LIDDON
- (i): DEAN CHURCH
- (k): “ROBERT ELSMERE”
- (l): OLD TESTAMENT CRITICISM
- (m): BISHOP BUTLER
- (n): MR. GLADSTONE’S ROMANES LECTURE
- (o): ACTON’S LIBRARY
- (p): WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
- (q): MR. GLADSTONE’S RETIREMENT
- (r): MR. GLADSTONE’S BIOGRAPHY
- (s): THE NAVAL ESTIMATES OF 1894
- (t): ANGLICAN ORDERS AND REUNION
- (u): MISCELLANEOUS
- Lord Acton on Paper respecting Authority1
- To Mary Gladstone
- To the Right Hon. Herbert Gladstone
- B.—: LADY BLENNERHASSETT1
- (a)—: MADAME DE STAËL
- (b): TALLEYRAND
- (c): GEORGE ELIOT
- (d): MISCELLANEOUS
- C.—: MISCELLANEOUS
- GENERAL LEE
- To Lady Acton.
- From Dr. Mandell Creighton.
- THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW
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