lage, and worked for the day. The unpublished materials which he
found at his disposal were such as scarcely any historian had ever
enjoyed before.

A few months after his return to England, on the 12th of September,
1861, he married his second wife, Henrietta Warre. Miss Warre, who
had been his first wife's intimate friend, was exactly suited to
him, and their union was one of perfect happiness. So long as he was
editor of Fraser, Froude felt it his duty to write pretty regularly
for it, so that his hands were constantly full. But of course his
main business for the next ten years was the continuation of his
History, which involved frequent visits to Simancas, as well as many
to the British Museum, the Record Office, and Hatfield House.

From the Marquess of Salisbury, father of the late Prime Minister,
Froude received permission to search the Cecil papers at Hatfield,
which, though less numerous than those in the Record Office, are
invaluable to students of Elizabeth's reign. His investigations at
Hatfield were begun in April, 1862, and led, among other
consequences, to one of his most valued friendships. With Lady
Salisbury, afterwards Lady Derby, he kept up for more than thirty
years a correspondence which only ended with his death. It was
Froude who introduced Lady Salisbury to Carlyle, and she thoroughly
appreciated the genius of both. Her intimate knowledge of politics
was completed when Lord Derby sat in Disraeli's Cabinet. But she was
always behind the scenes, and it was from her that Froude obtained
most of his political information. Their earliest communications,
however, referred to the Elizabethan part of the History, especially
to the career and influence of William Cecil, Lord Burghley. A
preliminary letter shows the thoroughness of Froude's methods. The
date is the 5th of March, 1862.

"DEAR LADY SALISBURY,--If Lord Salisbury has not repented of his
kind promise to me, I shall in a few weeks be in a condition to
avail myself of it, and I write to ask you whether about the
beginning of next month I may be permitted to examine the papers at
Hatfield. I am unwilling to trouble Lord Salisbury more than
necessary. I have therefore examined every other collection within
my reach first, that I might know clearly what I wanted. Obliged as
I am to confine myself for the present to the first ten years of
Elizabeth's reign, there will not be much which I shall have to
examine there, the great bulk of Lord Burle