Letters to Horace Howard Furness, 1879-1880.

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Letters to Horace Howard Furness, 1879-1880.

In the second letter, postmarked 19 May 1880, Gladstone thanks Furness for sending him a copy of the Variorum King Lear (1880).

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Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898

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William Ewart Gladstone, prime minister and author, was born in Liverpool, on Dec. 29, 1809; the fifth child and youngest son of Sir John Gladstone and Anne Mackenzie Gladstone. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, in preparation for a future in the British political world. He married Catherine Glynne, whom he met in Rome, in 1839, and together they had eight children. Gladstone was first elected to Parliament in January 1833, and over the next sixty years was involved i...