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vi William Anson. The late Sir Edward Strachey allowed me to see the papers in his possession relating to the Peace of Versailles; and to Miss Travis and Mr. Stevenson I owed the use of the letters written by Lord Shelburne to Dr. Price.

From Lord Derby and Lord Carnarvon I received permission to examine the papers relating to the period at the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office, of which at the time they were the respective heads.

Among the papers of Lord Shelburne are several autobiographical fragments, viz.:—

The most important of these papers are two autobiographical fragments forming an account of Lord Shelburne's own early life, with a sketch of the political