SOME ADDITIONS TO THE DODINGTON DIARY.

This article critically appraises the book "Political Journal of George Bubb Dodington," by J. Carswell and L. Dralle. Originally comprising eight folio notebooks, the "Diary"--part of a larger political archive on deposit at Harvard was supplemented in this edition with first-hand accounts of conversations, drafts of speeches, as well as numerous informative letters from Dodington to prominent correspondents all previously unpublished. Here Dodington's letter confirms what historians have tong suspected: that he was directly involved in these proceedings to the point of actually putting pen to paper, producing and submitting for Bute's inspection the draft of a pamphlet addressing both the German war and the impending peace with France.