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35 Notes of conversation with the Duke of Wellington at Walmer, 25 October 1838, quoted in Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, pp.346–7
36 Ibid., p.348
37 Dacres Adams to Stanhope, 26 April 1861, Stanhope Mss U 1590 C405/15
38 Account of Oliver Ferrer, Twiss, The Private and Public Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, Vol. I, p.499
39 Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury, Vol. IV, p.347
40 Ibid., p.348
41 Corbett, The Campaign of Trafalgar, p.398
42 Notebook of Lord Fitzharris, 1805, Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury, Vol. IV, p.349n
43 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.347
44 Rosebery, Letters Relating to the Love Episode of William Pitt, p.37
45 Pitt to Harrowby, 29 November 1805, quoted in Rose, William Pitt and the Great War, p.542
46 Marshall, The Rise of Canning, p.296
47 Chevening Mss, quoted in Rose, William Pitt and the Great War, p.548
48 Marshall, The Rise of Canning, p.296
49 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.362
TWENTY-EIGHT: ‘How I Leave My Country’
1 Rosebery, Letters Relating to the Love Episode of William Pitt, p.46
2 Lady Bessborough to G. Leverson Gower, 23 January 1806, Granville (ed.), Lord Granville Leveson Gower, First Earl Granville: Private Correspondence. 1781–1821, Vol. II, pp.162–3
3 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.363
4 Ashbourne, Pitt: Some Chapters of His Life and Times, p.360
5 Harrowby to Paget, 27 December 1805, quoted in Ehrman, The Younger Pitt, Vol. III, p.817
6 Canning to Pitt, 31 December 1805, Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.365
7 Raikes, A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes, Vol. IV, p.287
8 Rosebery, Letters Relating to the Love Episode of William Pitt, p.39
9 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.366
10 Pitt to Castlereagh, 6 January 1806, quoted in ibid., p.367
11 Ibid., pp.367–8
12 Rosebery, Letters Relating to the Love Episode of William Pitt, p.41
13 Ibid.
14 Pitt to Wellesley, 12 January 1806, quoted in Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.374
15 Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury, Vol. IV, p.352
16 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, pp.44–5
17 Meryon (ed.), Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope …, p.79
18 Tomline, draft account for his Life of Pitt, BL Add Mss 45107
19 Rosebery, Letters Relating to the Love Episode of William Pitt, pp.45–6
20 Stanhope (ed.), Miscellanies, pp.30–1
21 Tomline, draft account for his Life of Pitt, BL Add Mss 45107
22 Hinde, George Canning, p.140
23 Marshall, The Rise of Canning, p.296
24 Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury, Vol. IV, p.353
25 Rosebery, Letters Relating to the Love Episode of William Pitt, p.46
26 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.375
27 Rosebery, Letters Relating to the Love Episode of William Pitt, pp.46–7
28 Harcourt, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, Vol. II, p.223
29 Canning to Sturges Bourne, 8 January 1806, Canning Mss, William L. Clements Library, Michigan
30 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.379
31 Rosebery, Letters Relating to the Love Episode of William Pitt, p.47
32 J. Stanhope, ‘Notes of Mr. Pitt’s Last Illness’, quoted in Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.379
33 Ibid., p.380
34 Harcourt, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, Vol. II, p.230
35 Tomline, draft account for his Life of Pitt, BL Add Mss 45107
36 Harcourt, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, Vol. II, p.231
37 Marshall, The Rise of Canning, p.297
38 BL Add Mss 58909, fol. 101
39 Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury, Vol. IV, p.354
40 Rosebery, Letters Relating to the Love Episode of William Pitt, p.48
41 Reilly, Pitt the Younger, p.345; see also Ehrman, The Younger Pitt, Vol. III, p.825
42 J. Stanhope, ‘Notes of Mr. Pitt’s Last Illness’, quoted in Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.381
43 Ibid.
44 Ibid., p.382
45 Ibid.
46 Farington, The Farington Diary, Vol. III, p.166
47 Marshall, The Rise of Canning, p.298
48 Harcourt, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, Vol. II, p.258
49 Letter from Lord Wellesley, 22 November 1836, Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.396
50 The Sun, 24 January, 1806
51 The Sun, 23 January 1806
52 The Times, 24 January 1806
53 Lady Bessborough to Lord Bessborough, 23 January 1806, Granville (ed.), Lord Granviüe Leveson Gower, First Earl Granville: Private Correspondence. 1781–1821, Vol. II, p.162
54 Stanhope. Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.375
55 Sidmouth to Bragge-Bathurst, 22 January 1805, Sidmouth Mss, quoted in Ziegler, Addington, p.248
56 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.391
57 Morning Herald, 28 January 1806
58 Meryon (ed.), Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope …, p.69
59 Lt. Col. Taylor to the Bishop of Lincoln, 22 January 1806, Aspinall, The Later Correspondence of George III, Vol. IV, p.381
60 Rosebery, Letters Relating to the Love Episode of William Pitt, p.302
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