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  Manuscript collections

  Reference to specific Manuscript numbers is in the notes. In the British Library I benefited from being able to read:

  Balfour Papers (Additional MSS 49683–49962)

  Burns Papers (Additional MSS 46286–94)

  Dilke Papers (Additional MSS 43874–43967 and 49610–12)

  Gladstone Papers (Additional MSS 44086–44835, 44900–1, 45724, 5644–53)

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  In the Bodleian Library, I consulted:

  Benson Papers

  Croker Papers

  Ponsonby Papers

  Index

  The page references in this index correspond to the printed edition from which this ebook was created. To find a specific word or phrase from the index, please use the search feature of your ebook reader.

  Abd-ul-Aziz, Ottoman Sultan, 393–4

  Abd-ul-Hamit II, Ottoman Sultan, 394

  Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of, 66, 136, 146–7, 174, 186–7, 189–90

  Abraham Bey, 393

  Academic Institutions (Ireland) Act (1845), 68–9

  see also Maynooth

  accents, regional, 60

  Achmet Aga, 395–6

  Acland, Sir Henry, 166

  Adams, Charles Francis, 251, 253

  Adelaide, Queen of William IV, 24

  Adowa, Battle of (1896), 608

  adultery, 234

  aestheticism, 554–5

  Afghan Wars

  First (1842), 124–5

  Second (1879), 353, 400–1, 405

  Africa

  empire in, 48, 272

  European scramble for, 272, 391, 486–92, 512, 602–3

  resistance to modern world, 488

  scientific exploration of, 488–9

  see also South Africa

  Afrikaners, 605

  see also Boers

  after-life: doubts on, 99–100, 236