W. E. Gladstone: An annotation key

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Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 140-143

  Clayton, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79954188481     PISSN: 00293970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nq/48.2.140     Document Type: Note

References (23)

1. J. Powell, 'Small Marks and Instinctual Responses: A Study in the Uses of Gladstone's Marginalia', Nineteenth-Century Prose, Special Issue, xix, No. 3(1992), 4.
2. Cf. also T. Jones, 'Marginal Notes by Mr. Gladstone', Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol CymrulThe National Library of Wales Journal, iv (1945-6), 50-2. This constitutes a very short note, but one which recognized Gladstone's marginalia as 'evidence of an alert, critical, and encyclopaedic intelligence' which 'might furnish proof... of the amazing contents of his voracious mind' (50).
3. 'Ingalton. Bookseller & Stationer, Eton'. M. R. D. Foot and H. C. G. Matthew (eds), [The] G[ladstone] D[iaries], 14 v (Oxford, 1968-94), contain references to Gladstone's dealings with this firm. AJ1 subsequent diary references will be abbreviated, with volume number and date of entry.
4. GD, I, 1/7/27.
5. GD, II, 17/12/34.
6. Cf. [The] G[ladstone] P[apers], Add. MS 44723, fos 327-58
7. for Gladstone's notes and observations on Locke's Essay. This collection is deposited at the British Library and catalogued in British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts. The Gladstone Papers. Additional Manuscripts 44086-44835 (London, 1953).
8. GP, Add. MS 44723, fos 328, 342. Gladstone notes his resumption of the text at Book II, chapter viii.
9. R. Shannon, Gladstone. Peel's Inheritor 1809-1865 (London, 1999), 53.
10. John Locke, Works 10 v (London, 1823), II, 321.
11. Cf. GP Add. MS 44723, fo. 352.
12. R. Shannon, Gladstone: Heroic Minister 1865-1898 (London, 1999), 511.
13. Cf. J. Morley, Life [of William Ewart Gladstone], 3 v (London, 1903), III, 476-7. The recorded discussion continues with Morley asserting Locke's 'influence as a historic force'. He records Gladstone citing a remark by David Hume critical of Locke, but the specific thrust of Gladstone's argument is not made clear.
14. Andrew Robinson, 'Grand Old Man under Providence', the Times Higher (3 Mar. 2000), 30.
15. H. C. G. Matthew, Gladstone 1809-1898 (Oxford, 1997), 34-5, 62-3.
16. Cf. Morley's Life, I, 135.
17. GP, Add. MS 44723, fo. 349, 356.
18. Lord King, The Life of John Locke [with extracts from his correspondence, journals, and common-place books], 2 v (London, 1830).
19. Lord King, The Life of John Locke (London, 1830), I, 160.
20. Lord King, The? Life of John Locke (London, 1830), I, 174.
21. GP, Add. MS 44723, fo. 357.
22. GP, Add. MS 44728, fo. 232. The memorandum is dated 3 April 1839. Gladstone asserts the need to engage with Locke's writing directly and not accept second-hand summaries of it, which may be misrepresentations.
23. T. L. Crosby, The Two Mr. Gladstones. A Study in Psychology and History (New Haven, 1997), 28.