Note 16 — Chapter I · DISRAELI’S PERSONALITY

It succeeded a respectable pro-Canning and pro-Queen-Caroline weekly, to which Disraeli seems to have contributed as a lad also. Its foundation brought him to Sir Walter Scott, and to Lockhart, who at first disdained to be “editor,” but melted when Disraeli assured him that he would be “Director-general” of a controlling organ. Only a temporary breach with Murray was caused by Disraeli’s speedy withdrawal from the concern. But for Lockhart, as a “tenth-rate novelist,” Disraeli expressed contempt in 1833, when he proposed to write for the Edinburgh, presided over by Napier. Cf. British Museum, Add. MS. 34,616, f. 45.