Benjamin Disraeli Letters

The latest volume in the critically acclaimed Letters of Benjamin Disraeli series contains or describes 952 letters (778 perviously unpublished) written by Disraeli between 1852 and 1856.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) was one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century Europe, spending three decades in British government and twice serving as prime minister, as well as being a well-known literary figure. A convert to Anglicanism, he was Britain's first and thus far only Prime Minister of Jewish heritage.

Mary S. Millar is a co-editor with the Disraeli Project and an independent scholar in Kingston, Ontario.Wiebe M.G. :

M.G. Wiebe is general editor emeritus of the Disraeli Project and was a professor of English at Queen's University.

JOHN M. ROBSON was born educated in Toronto, graduating from the University of Toronto (B.A. 1951, M.A. 1953, PH.D. 1956). After lecturing at the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta, he joined the staff as Victoria College, University of Toronto, where he is now Professor of English. He is Associate Editor of the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, and he also edited Edmund Burke’s Appel from the New to the Old Whigs, J.S. Mill: A Selection, and Editing Nineteenth-Century Texts.

'If you have not read the first three volumes of the Disraeli letters, then you have a treat in store...Volume IV, like the others, is informatively introduced and meticulously edited...The detailed footnotes...are often as illuminating as the letters. The erudition never becomes heavy or obfuscating, but the accumulated information is a veritable who's who and where's where for London life in the 1840s.'

Angus Hopkins:

'If you have not read the first three volumes of the Disraeli letters, then you have a treat in store...Volume IV, like the others, is informatively introduced and meticulously edited...The detailed footnotes...are often as illuminating as the letters. The erudition never becomes heavy or obfuscating, but the accumulated information is a veritable who's who and where's where for London life in the 1840s.'