Excerpt from The Panmure Papers, Vol. 1: Being a Selection From the Correspondence of Fox Maule, Second Baron Panmure, Afterwards Eleventh Earl of Dalhousie
"History," says Lord Acton, "is better written from letters than from histories." In The Panmure Papers the historical student will find given to the world, for the first time, the correspondence of a Sovereign with her War Minister during the course of a great modern war. Out of nearly two hundred letters of Queen Victoria which the Editors have been graciously permitted by His Majesty the King to print, less than a dozen have been already published in The Letters of Queen Victoria, 1837-1861, edited by Mr. A. C. Benson and Viscount Esher. The remainder are so far unpublished, and are, we venture to say, of the utmost interest in illustrating, not only Her Majesty"s profound sympathy with her Army in its seasons of suffering and of triumph, but her close attention to the minuti? of the War Department and the details of its administration. Second only to these in interest are the letters of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, revealing as they do the breadth of intellectual view and the high sense of duty of one whose services to the nation were too early lost and too late appreciated. Lord Palmerston"s letters may be said to illustrate the principle that, to the successful carrying on of a great war, the personal interest of the Prime Minister in the affairs of the War Department is essential.
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