Xll NOTE TO SECOND EDITION. 



"In September 1862 lie began, while at Brougham, 

 the Political part i.e., Canning and his Government, 

 Lord Grey and his Government, and so on to the end 

 of 1834. 



"When we went to Cannes in November 18G2, all 

 Lord Grey's letters were taken, and from these he 

 made selections. In the autumn of 1863, when at 

 Brougham, he completed this part, by the addition of 

 his own narrative, and letters letters which he had 

 before that time received from Lady Grey, Lord 

 Grey's widow, and without which he could have done 

 nothing. 



" Up to this time he had not written one word of his 

 Early Life ; but on being strongly urged to attempt 

 this, both by Mr Elwin (then editor of the c Quarterly') 

 and myself, he began in November 1863, and, in a 

 search he then made for early materials, he found the 

 MS. of Memnon. This he marked in pencil on the 



first page, thus : 'At B m (Brougham), 1792.' He 



believed he had composed it, entirely forgetting that 

 it was only a translation, probably a task set him by 

 his tutor a very pardonable mistake after a lapse of 

 seventy years. He continued to write at this part of 

 his Early Life, from time to time, TILL NOVEMBER 

 1867. 



"BROUGHAM, March 1871." 



