Notes From a Diary, Vol. 1 of 2: 1896 to January 23, 1901

Excerpt from Notes From a Diary, Vol. 1 of 2: 1896 to January 23, 1901
With these two volumes, the thirteenth and fourteenth of the series, I bring to a close the Notes, which I began to select from my Diary in 1896. They extend from New Year's Day in 1851, when, having just taken my degree at Oxford, I had reached Avignon, on my way to pay my first visit to Rome, and end, fifty years later, with the 23rd January 1901, when the Privy Council took the oaths to King Edward VII.
I have, for reasons stated in the Preface to the first two volumes, carefully avoided the chief interests of my life, politics and administration. Of these I have said what I had to say in many books and speeches. In most lives, however, there are whole tracts of interests, lying outside the boundaries of the chief ones, and it is with such that these fourteen volumes are mainly concerned.
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