HER DIARIES AND LETTERS
NY: Dutton, (1930). First Edition. 8vo, pp. xix, 492. Illustrated. Donor's presentation on pastedown. Green cloth stmped in gilt. Cover faded, and worn at edges, especially ends of spine, o/w VG. Item #54085
Wikipedia: "Mary Drew (née Gladstone; 23 November 1847–1 January 1927), was a political secretary, writer and hostess. She was the daughter of the British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, and achieved notability as his advisor, confidante and private secretary. She also attained a fair degree of political influence by controlling access to him... A keen diarist, Gladstone kept copious notes of her father's meetings and conversations, in addition to her own observations of late 19th-century political events. Her archives, "The Mary Gladstone Papers" (some of which were published by Lucy Masterman in 1930 under the title Mary Gladstone (Mrs. Drew), Her Diaries and Letters), are a much-used source of many 20th- and 21st-century biographies of leading figures of the day.
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