The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay Volume I 1807-February 1831 by MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON - 1974

London: Cambridge University Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1974. First Edition. Hard Cloth Cover. 8vo 0521202019 Dust jacket price clipped. Brown cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Frontis portrait plate. xlii, 330 pages clean and tight. Some of Macaulay's letters were printed in nineteenth-century memoirs, but a ` Complete Letters' of this eminent Victorian has long been needed. Professor Pinney is editing the whole body of surviving letters by Macaulay, giving accurate texts and textual and explanatory notes. The letters are in chronological order, grouped by historical theme and phases of Macaulay's life. The first two volumes deal with his childhood, career at Cambridge, early legal career and early political career, and end with him about to leave for India. The letters are lively because Macaulay (as lawyer, essayist, historian, politician, administrator, poet) was a man of enormous energy and very wide interests. They will add greatly to our sense of early Victorian political and cultural life as well as to our understanding of Macaulay himself. The editor was Professor of English, Pomona College, The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California .