852, an ill-arranged book, has letters of value,
exhibits the policy of the Rockingham whigs, their differences with Pitt
(Chatham), and their efforts for reform. _Autobiography and Political
Correspondence of the Duke of Grafton_, 1898, edited by Sir WILLIAM
ANSON, with an excellent introduction and useful footnotes, gives
valuable notices of the first Rockingham ministry, the weakness of the
administration formed under Chatham, the collapse of all ministerial
vigour during his illness and when Grafton was nominally at the head of
affairs, and the views of the whigs with regard to the constitution.
_The Correspondence of George III. with Lord North_, 1768-83, 2 vols.,
1867, edited by W. B. Donne, with copious notes and comments, shows the
king's system of personal rule through his ministers in full working,
the position held by North under it, and his unavailing attempts to
resign office when forced to carry out a policy he disapproved, together
with much that concerns the conduct of the war. Lord EDMOND FITZMAURICE,
_Life of the Earl of Shelburne_ (Marquis of Lansdowne), 3 vols.,
1875-76, based on papers at Lansdowne House and elsewhere, represents
Shelburne's political conduct in as favourable a light as possible; the
parts relating to the quarrel between Shelburne and H. Fox in vol. i.,
the negotiations in Paris in 1782 and 1783, and the quarrel with C. J.
Fox, are perhaps specially useful, but the whole work down to 1784 is
necessary and authoritative.

Lord STANHOPE, _Life of Pitt_, 4 vols., 2nd edit., 1862, founded on
unpublished papers (see sec. 2, _Pitt Papers_); a good biography and a
standard and indispensable work. With this should be read Lord ROSEBERY,
_Pitt_ (Twelve English Statesmen Series), 1891, an admirable
appreciation of Pitt's work and character. Lord JOHN (Earl) RUSSELL,
_Memorials and Correspondence of C. J. Fox_, 4 vols., 1853, has many
letters of importance, but is otiosely edited, and _Life of C. J. Fox_,
3 vols., 1859-67, more concerned with politics, which it treats from a
strongly whig standpoint, than with biography. Sir G. O. TREVELYAN,
_Early History of C. J. Fox_, 1880, written on the whig side, ends with
1774. _Court and Cabinets of George III._, edited by the Duke of
Buckingham, 4 vols., 1853-55 (vol. i. begins at 1782, and 1801 is
reached early in vol. iii.), contains the correspondence of the brothers
Lord Temple (later Marquis of Buckingham), Thomas, and W. W. Grenville
(later Lord