DILKE PAPERS. Vols. LI-LV. Confidential diaries of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Bart., compiled intentionally for eventual publication (cf. Add. MS. 43924, f. 1, and Add. MS. 43927, f. 1) and forming the basis for part of the 'Memoirs' (Add. MSS. 43930-43941). Imperfect. The entries, which relate mostly to political matters, are irregular and they become less frequent after 1886: the final volume (43928) is mostly in the hand of Dilke's secretary, Harry Kynoch Hudson (C.B.E. 1918). Five ...
DILKE PAPERS. Vol. LVI (ff. 174). Autobiographical notes of Sir Charles Dilke (including notes for his 'Memoirs'); 1852-1910. Mainly autograph. includes: f. 8 Carew, Pembrokeshire: Pencil sketch of cross at, by Sir C. Dilke: 1857.ff. 8, 9, 23, 25, 28, 30, 38, 40, 132-134 Art. Illuminations...
DILKE PAPERS. Vols. LVII-LXVIII. 'Memoirs' of Sir Charles Dilke: mainly in the handwriting of H. K. Hudson (C.B.E. 1918), his secretary, 1887-1911, with autograph corrections and additions by Dilke and also notes by his biographers S. L. Gwynn and G. M. Tuckwell. The period covered is from Dilke's birth until 1910, but little is mentioned after the year 1893. Imperfect. Twelve volumes.
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Stephen Lucius Gwynn, DLitt.; MP: Notes by: 1911-1914. Harry Kynoch Hudson, CBE; Secretary to Sir C W Dilke: Drafts, transcripts, etc., by: 1887-1911.
DILKE PAPERS. Vol. LXIX (ff. 129). Notes, in diary form, relating to William Ewart Gladstone, 1872-1893, compiled by Dilke from his own papers (including the 'Memoirs') for the use of Gladstone's biographer John Morley (Viscount Morley of Blackburn 1908) who returned them to Dilke in 1903 (cf. ...