MY grateful thanks are due to Earl Curzon, Lord Blyth, Lord Beresford, Sir George Reid, Sir Charles Bruce, Mr Herbert Samuel, Mr Austen Chamberlain, Commendatore Marconi, Mr Wilfrid Meymell, Mr T. P. O'Connor, Colonel R. W. Renshaw, Mr William Heaton, Mr Harry Brittain, and Mrs Algernon Paget, for the help they have given me; and to all those who have kindly allowed their letters to be published.
My acknowledgments are also due to the Editors of The Times, The Nineteenth Century, The Daily Graphic, The Graphic, and to the Editor of The Leisure Hour, for permission to quote at length from an article in that Magazine, entitled "The Mother of Parliaments" (Chapter II.).
The postal statistics and facts are taken in all cases from my father's publications and private notes.
