at Auckland, Professor Willis Airey, Professor Keith Sinclair, and
Professor Robert Chapman. For the privilege of access to private
collections of papers I have to thank the following: Mr W. K.
Stead, of Little Beside House, St Day, Cornwall, for permission to
read the papers in his possession of his grandfather, W. T. Stead;
the Marquess of Salisbury, for permission to read and publish ex-
tracts from the Salisbury Papers housed at Christ Church, Oxford;
the Very Rev. E. S. Abbott, formerly Warden of Keble College,
Oxford, for making it possible for me to have access to the Liddon
Papers stored in Keble Library; the Duke of Devonshire and the
Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement, for permission to read at
Chatsworth the papers of the eighth Duke, and Mr W. S. Wragg,
Keeper of the Devonshire Collections, for much assistance to that
end.

Every effort has been made to get into touch with the owners of
copyright material. In any case where this has failed, it is hoped
that this general acknowledgment will be accepted as adequate.

May 1963 R. T. SHANNON

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