LETTERS OF LORD ACTON TO MARY, DAUGHTER OF THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR, BY HERBERT PAUL LONDON GEORGE ALLEN, 156, CHARING CROSS ROAD 1904 [All rights reserved] COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 1904 Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & Co. At the Ballantyne Press     " Through such souls alone God stooping shows sufficient of His Light For us i' the dark to rise by. " THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED TO LADY ACTON BY M. D. CONTE

LETTERS OF LORD ACTON Mentone Oct. 31, 1879 You were threatened with a long letter from me, about people at Paris, but I could not finish it, ... and so I lost the only days on which Paris information could be of any use. After a week of care, varied by pleasant visits from Lacaita, F. Leveson, and H. Cowper, we started, and rested at Milan and Genoa, and yet were nearly the first arrivals here. We expect to have the Granvilles for neighbours at Cannes, as well as Westminsters. Let me first of a