B.D.

There seems to have been a difference of opinion between the author and the publisher respecting the title of the book: 

Mr. Disraeli to John Murray.

DEAR SIR,

I have a great respect for your judgment, especially on the subject of titles, as I have shown in another instance, one which I shall ever regret.  In the present, I shall be happy to receive from you any suggestion, but I can offer none.  To me the Gallomania (or mania for what is French) appears to be one of the most felicitous titles ever devised.  It is comprehensive, it is explicit, it is poignant and intelligible, as I should suppose, to learned and unlearned.  The word Anglomania is one of the commonest on the other side of the channel, is repeated daily in almost every newspaper; has been the title of one or two works; and of the best farce in the French language.  It is here also common and intelligible.

There is no objection to erasing the epithet “New,” if you think it loads the title.

Yours truly,

B.D.

The three following letters were written on the same day: 

Mr. Disraeli to John Murray.  DUKE STREET, March 30, 1832.

DEAR SIR,

I am going to dine with Baron D’Haussez, Baron de Haber, et hoc genus, today, and must report progress, otherwise they will think I am trifling with them.  Have you determined on a title?  What think you of “A Cure for the Ministerial Gallomania,” and advertise, dedicated to Lord Grey?  Pray decide.  You are aware I have not yet received a proof.  Affairs look awkward in France.  Beware lest we are a day after the fair, and only annalists instead of prophets.

Your very faithful Servant, B. DISRAELI.

March 30.

DEAR SIR,

I think it does very well, and I hope you are also satisfied.  I shall send you the rest of the MS. tomorrow morning.  There is a very remarkable chapter on Louis Philippe which is at present with Baron D’Haussez; and this is the reason I have not forwarded it to you.  I keep the advertisement to show them.

B.D.

MY DEAR SIR,

In further answer to your note received this evening, I think it proper to observe that I entirely agree with you that I “am bound to make as few alterations as possible,” coming as they do from such a quarter; and I have acted throughout in such a spirit.  All alterations and omissions of consequence are in this first sheet, and I have retained in the others many things of which I do not approve, merely on account of my respect for the source from whence they are derived.