as well as to Mr. G. E. Marindin, formerly Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and to Mr. J. A. R. Marriott, the author of an able, but all too short, study of Canning's political life.
Writing for the most part in a country-house, and without immediate access to a good modern library, I have often found it difficult to edit, however imperfectly, a mass of letters of a bygone generation.
Much of this difficulty has been obviated by the kind assistance rendered to me by Mr. H. T. Cox, the courteous librarian of the Carlton Club.