My Dearest Ben
THE PERSONAL LETTERS OF BENJAMIN DISRAELI
by Thea van Dam
Many books show Benjamin Disraeli the politician and prime minister, but few reveal his relationships with parents, sister, brothers,
with his wife and his lovers.
This book draws on the more than 10,000 letters that Ben – ‘Dizzy’ to his friends– wrote with his own hand.
It shows his ‘special relationship’ with Buckinghamshire: from a summer holiday at Hyde House near Chesham in 1825 to his own ‘great
house’ at Hughenden where he died in 1881.
First published in 2008, this is a second edition, with added index, family tree and chronology.
208 pages, paperback.
Published by Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society in February 2018.
ISBN 978-0-9957177-2-5
£5.75
plus £1.25 post and packing (UK).
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