Add MS 44769

GLADSTONE PAPERS. Vol. DCLXXXIV (ff. 264). Memoranda on the Sudan, Russia and Afghanistan, resignation of the government, etc., Jan.-Nov. 1885. The principal subjects are :-

1. British policy iii the Sudan, including a memorandum (ff. 52-65) on the position of General Gordon. Autogr. ff. 15-85 passim.

2. The occupation of Penjdeh by Russian troops and the Afghan boundary dispute. Autogr. ff. 31-100 passim.

3. Gladstone's account of his resignation and of the consequent negotiations. Mostly autogr. ff. 128-180. Quarto.

includes:

• ff. 1-11 Egypt: Papers of W. E. Gladstone rel. to: 1882-1893.: Partly printed.
• f. 13 John Henry Newman, Cardinal: Memorandum by W. E. Gladstone rel. to: 1885.
• ff. 15-85 passim Major-General Charles George Gordon: Memoranda by W. E. Gladstone on his position at Khartoum: 1884-1885.
• ff. 15-85 passim Sudan: Memoranda by W. E. Gladstone rel. to Gen. Gordon's position at Khartum: 1884-1885.
• ff. 31-100 passim Alexander III of Russia: British memoranda rel. to Russia and Afghanistan: 1881-1885.: Mostly printed.
• ff. 31-100 passim Afghanistan: Memoranda rel. to Russia and Afghanistan: 1881-1885.: Partly printed.
• ff. 36-38, 198-215 England, Ecclesiastical History: Memoranda rel. to ecclesiastical preferment: 1882-1893.
• f. 66 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, poet: Memorandum rel. to: 1885.
• f. 77 William Palmer, Prebendary of Salisbury: Memorandum by W. E. Gladstone on his Treatise on the Church of Christ: 1885.
• ff. 107-111 Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville: Memorandum by W. E. Gladstone of a conversation with: 1885.
• f. 116 Edward VII of England: Memorandum by the Sec. to the Prime Minister conc. communication of Cabinet decisions to, as Prince of Wales: 1885.
• f. 116 Sir Edward Walter Hamilton, GCB; Secretary to W E Gladstone: Memoranda, etc., by: 1873-1893.
• f. 116 Privy Council, The: Memorandum conc. communication of Cabinet decisions to the Prince of Wales: 1885.
• ff. 118-122 Ireland: Papers rel. to the Agrarian Question: 1844-1893.: Partly printed.
• f. 127 Korea: Memoranda rel. to Port Hamilton, etc.: 1885.
• ff. 128-180 Privy Council, The: Memoranda, etc., chiefly by W. E. Gladstone, rel. to the Cabinet: 1844-1894.
• f. 135 Victoria of England: Memoranda by W. E. Gladstone of his audiences, etc., with the Queen and the Prince Consort: 1846-1897.
• ff. 156-180 Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne; 3rd Marquess of Salisbury; Prime Minister: Correspondence rel. to acceptance of office by: 1885.: Copies.
• ff. 183-197 Honours: Papers of W. E. Gladstone rel. to grants of: 1869-1893.
• ff. 220, 226 Norway: Memoranda rel. to churches in: 1885.
• f. 225 Professor Anders Lund Lorange, of Bergen: Letter to W. E. Gladstone: 1885.
• ff. 228-232 Norwegian Language: Vocabulary, by W. E. Gladstone, of Norwegian words: 1885.: Engl. and Norwegian.
• ff. 234-250 County of Edinburgh: Midlothian Election Addresses of W. E. Gladstone: 1880-1892.
• ff. 234-250 Elections Parliamentary: Papers of W. E. Gladstone rel. to his Parliamentary candidatures: 1832-1892.: Partly printed.
• ff. 252, 253 England, Ecclesiastical History: Memoranda by W. E. Gladstone on the Elizabethan religious settlement: 1885.
• f. 254 Philosophy: Memoranda by W. E. Gladstone on: 1833-1886.
• f. 256 Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne; 3rd Marquess of Salisbury; Prime Minister: Memorandum by W. E. Gladstone rel. to: 1885.
• ff. 257-263 County of Edinburgh: Papers rel. to the Mercat Cross: 1885.: Lat. and Engl.