^{page 179 note 1} Buckle, Life of Disraeli, iv. 240–1.

^{page 180 note 1} Letters, pp. 105, 125, 131, 184.

^{page 180 note 2} Letters, pp. 44–45.

^{page 180 note 3} Elgin to the Queen, January 20th, 1863.

^{page 182 note 1} It is plain from the correspondence that one of the chief reasons why Herbert Edwardes was never given the chance to fulfil the startling promise of his early days was the distrust in his judgment which his religious fervour bred at headquarters.

^{page 182 note 2} Elgin to Laing, September 9th, 1862. Elgin and Wood deserve some credit for postponing the date at which “government by business men” began.

^{page 183 note 1} Wood to Elgin, November 17th, 1862.

^{page 183 note 2} Ibid. January 9th, 1863.

^{page 184 note 1} Wood to Elgin, August 9th, 1862.

^{page 184 note 2} Elgin to Wood, June 22nd, 1862.

^{page 184 note 3} Ibid. August 17th, 1862.

^{page 185 note 1} Wheler to Sir Hugh Rose, June 2nd, 1862.

^{page 185 note 2} Elgin to Sir Hugh Rose, March 20th, 1863.

^{page 186 note 1} Elgin to Wood, March 23rd, 1862.

^{page 186 note 2} Referring to the appointments first of Wilson, and then of Laing to the Financial Department.

^{page 187 note 1} Wood to Elgin, April 9th, 1862.

^{page 187 note 2} Elgin to Wood, September 9th, 1862. In Canada Elgin had been plagued by the same ill habit, especially at the hands of churchmen, and he always resented it.

^{page 187 note 3} Ibid. March 5th, 1863.

^{page 187 note 4} Ibid. December 9th, 1862.

^{page 188 note 1} Martineau, Life of Frere, 1. 336.

^{page 188 note 2} Wood to Elgin, May 19th, 1862.

^{page 188 note 3} Ibid. May 10th, 1862.

^{page 189 note 1} Elgin to Wood, April 19th, 1862.

^{page 190 note 1} Elgin to Sir R. Napier, August 20th, 1863.

^{page 191 note 1} Trevelyan, Life of Lord Macaulay, c. vi.

^{page 192 note 1} Elgin to Wood, October 19th, 1862.

^{page 193 note 1} Elgin to Wood, January 20th, 1863.

^{page 193 note 2} Ibid. May 9th, 1862.

^{page 194 note 1} Wood to Elgin, August 25th, 1862.

^{page 195 note 1} Elgin to Wood, July 13th, 1863.

^{page 195 note 2} Ibid. August 14th, 1863.

^{page 195 note 3} Ibid. October 4th, 1863.

^{page 196 note 1} There is an excellent account of this Sitana, or Umbeyla, campaign in Forrest's Life of Sir Neville Chamberlain, c. 14.