Acton, the Catholic historian whose learning was a legend, wrote these letters to Mary Gladstone, the Prime Minister’s daughter, in the years of her father’s later ministries. They range over Liberal politics and personalities, the books he was reading and recommending, religion and history. Herbert Paul’s edition of 1904 opens with a memoir of Acton.
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