Автор:Marquess Of Crewe The Marquess of Crewe Год: 2006 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 376 ISBN: 9781406732894 LORD ROSEBERY BY THE MARQUESS OF CREWE VOL. I PREFACE SOON after Lord Rosebery died his family asked me to write his Life. I had seen more of him than most could. There was a longstanding family friendship I had known him for fifty years and been his near relation for many. But I did not disguise from my self the difficulty of the task. There was a great mass of material, of which some important elements were separately sorted, while others were indiscriminately dotted about at his different homes. He seldom destroyed even a trivial letter, so the work of selection was arduous. And the multiplicity of his interests made it imperative to include some illustration of each. But the labour was lightened by the ungrudg ing help rendered by the surviving members of Rose berys family, by his secretary Mr. Stanley Brown, and by some of his old servants. The material used in writing this bookapart from official documents and the correspondence of which acknowledgment is made later onmay be...
