In the year 2007, my father was dying and he wanted to see me. I did see him before he died. For the first time, we had a father-and-son talk. It was good. His face was childlike with his eyes wide open. He wanted us to take a walk in the garden, but I said, Its okay dad, sit down. At that time, I truly knew what forgiveness was. I asked him, Dad, do you remember 1972 when we were in London England? He quickly said, No. Fear was on his face. I never told my dad about Freestan. With the help of God I forgave Freestan a long time ago. The struggle between my father and I was a mighty one. A young boy was almost destroyed by his father. However, the bible helped my soul and the gospels made me strong. The voice of God was my only hope.
H.C.G. Matthew's acclaimed edition of Gladstone's diaries, correspondence, and other papers now culminates in this volume which contains comprehensive indexes to the entire edition. The Index of Persons (with a separate listing of the major dramatis personae), Subject Index, and Index of Gladstone's Reading form an invaluable reference tool and ancillary volume to a magisterial work of scholarship.
The tenth and eleventh volumes of Gladstone's diaries (1881-1886) cover the years of his dramatic second and third administrations. The second administration confronted a series of crises: the Land League Campaign and the Phoenix Park murders, Majuba Hill and South Africa, Gordon and the Sudan, and the obstruction of franchise reform by the House of Lords. The administration met these with determined assertion of administrative and legislative reforms, more coherent in policy and more consistent in practice than is often realized. Gladstone's third administration in 1886 attempted to pacify Ireland by granting Home Rule and in doing so provided one of the most exciting and controversial twelve months in British politics since the Civil War. These volumes include not only the daily text of Gladstone's private diaries (maintained almost without a break) but also all of his Cabinet Minutes, hitherto unpublished and themselves a remarkable, and for the Victorian period, unique diary of decision-making. There are over 1400 of the letters (the vast majority hitherto unpublished) which he wrote in those years. These letters flesh out the daily diary and the Cabinet Minutes, and cover the Church, the Queen and the Court, literature, theatre, art, and domestic affairs. There is much material in these volumes on Gladstone's unsuccessful but repeated attempts to retire from political office. The volumes offer an extraordinary narrative of great force, a remarkable mixture of achievement and disappointment, of bold legislation and administrative and political disasters. They display some of the innermost thoughts of an astonishing political personality which mesmerized contemporaries and has continued to fascinate historians and general readers.
The last two volumes of Gladstone's diary cover the years 1887-1896, and reveal a remarkably vigorous octogenarian. Gladstone was 84 when he stepped down as Prime Minister for the last time, but his life-style made few concessions to his age. His vast diary, together with a wealth of personal and official documentation, in H.C.G. Matthew's acclaimed edition forms a monument to one of the greatest statesmen of modern history.
This volume covers some of the most dramatic years of Gladstone's political life: his formal retirement from politics in 1875, his return to take the lead in the Bulgarian Atrocities campaign in 1876, the Midlothian Campaigns of 1879-80, and the opening months of his return to power in 1880.
The last two volumes of Gladstone's diary cover the years 1887-1896, and reveal a remarkably vigorous octogenarian. Gladstone was 84 when he stepped down as Prime Minister for the last time, but his life-style made few concessions to his age. His vast diary, together with a wealth of personal and official documentation, in H.C.G. Matthew's acclaimed edition forms a monument to one of the greatest statesmen of modern history.
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