1. Kimberley to Ripon (private), 6 November 1893, Ripon MSS, British Library, Add. MSS 43526; see also N.S. Johnson, ‘The Role of the Cabinet in the Making of Foreign Policy, 1885–1895’ (D.Phil. thesis, Oxford, 1970).
2. As ‘Boswellized’ by Balfour, Balfour to Salisbury, 24 March 1886, Balfour MSS, BL, Add. MSS 49688; also in A.J. Balfour, Chapters of Autobiography, ed. by B.E.C. Dugdale (London: Cassell, 1930), pp. 220–1.
3. Chamberlain to Dale, 30 March 1885, as quoted in J.L. Garvin The Life of Joseph Chamberlain, vol. 1 (London: Macmillan, 1932), p. 569;
4. see also A.W.W. Dale, The Life of R.W. Dale of Birmingham (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1898), pp. 445–6.
5. D.W. Bebbington, The Nonconformist Conscience: Chapel and Politics, 1870–1914 (London: Harper Collins, 1982), pp. 4–5.