The Creevey Papers

These are the letters and journals of Thomas Creevey, a Whig member of Parliament, covering English political and social life from the late eighteenth century through the Reform years. Creevey records debates, elections, and the fall of ministries, and he reports gossip from Brooks's, Brighton, and the households of Foxite aristocrats. The Waterloo campaign, the Prince Regent, Wellington, and Grey appear as figures seen from dinner tables and lobbies rather than from the cabinet. The papers are a contemporary chronicle of faction and fashion, not a formal history of the constitution.

Bound in green buckram with a design in gold by Madeline Dinkel. Pale purple endleaves. Green slipcase.