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.:—
1. Two autobiographical Memoranda of events up to 1758.
2. A Memorandum on the events of 1762, only part of which exists.
3. Characters of Henry Fox, Lord George Sackville, Lord Temple, and Lord Ashburton.
4. A very short fragment on the Ministry of 1766, evidently part of a paper the rest of which is lost.
5. Notes on what passed in 1782 when Lord Rockingham became Prime Minister.
6. Memorandum on the reforms in the Public Departments made or contemplated in 1782-1783.
7. Some observations on the French Revolution.
8. Memorandum on the possibility of forming a Ministry in 1792.
9. Notes relating to a proposal to form a Ministry with Lord Moira and Mr. Charles Fox in 1798.
10. Miscellaneous Papers relating to Land Tenure, Estate Management, and the Poor Laws.
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
