A large quantity of letters.

Baron Stanley of Alderley, statesman (1802-1869). 22 ALSs and ANSs (“S” or “Stanley”)and 1 AL, third person, 1-4pp., all 8vo except one (4to), to (S. Lucas), political journalist and author, mainly 1853, some undated or n.y., some not mentioning Lucas but almost certainly to him. Stanley is a contributor and more to a journal of which Lucas ispresumably the editor. Their brief, since Stanley was a Whig politician,was presumably to support the Whig cause. (See, however, the ALS toDisraeli described below.) He discusses the articles he is preparing or hasprepared (subjects including: J.W. Kaye and the British in India, DecimalCoinage, Lord Grey, Church Rates, the Civil Service, Reform, the IrishChurch, and others). He asks for books to review, submits proofs,estimates column space, promotes the work of others (for example, “DrMaddyn”), asks if there is anything he can do “for the common cause”,touches on his political activities and experiences, criticises the journal(for example, for the misprinting of French words), and so on. His final letter to Lucas in this collection (1866) is a response to a request of Lucas’s for contributions. He has “got out of the habit of writing” and, in answer to another point, discusses the periodical market and the influence of the “masses” and goes on: “I doubt the expediency of an authorised and semi-official communication between a journal and theleaders of the party. They compromise more than they help each other “. With: ALS, 1.5pp., 4to, to the “Rt.Hon. B. Disraeli”, 30 May 1853, some damage not affecting the text. Stanley promotes a “Mr Clark” as an “extra occasional hand on the Press”, outlining his distinguished academic past and his publications which included a book on Spain called Gazpacho). “He is not a politician, but an active and industrious litterateur, with a little property of his own, a great liking for society, and no dislike for money. Altogether a man who can be easily worked upon. I would not mention the subject to Lucas, because I really am not aware whether we have room foranother pen”. And: I ANS, 8vo, to D.T. Carlton, 10 July 1854, asking him to check whether a song that was to appear in “our collection” was in fact written twenty years before by Praed.The collection,