Some Hawarden Letters, 1873-1913: Written to Mrs. Drew (Miss Mary Gladstone) Before and After her Marriage

xvi, 366 pp. Frontispiece portrait, black-and-white photographic plates. "Mary Drew was a political secretary, writer and hostess. She was the daughter of the British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, and achieved notability as his advisor, confidante and private secretary. She also attained a fair degree of political influence by controlling access to him."