reference should be made to the same author's The European Concert in the Eastern Question[1] (Treaties and other Public Acts, with introductions and notes).
11. (a) Report from the Select Committee on the Diplomatic Service (with Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, &c.),[2] 1861.
This very valuable Report contains the evidence of Clarendon, Stratford de Redcliffe, Malmesbury, Cowley, Lord John Russell, Edmund Hammond (Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), and others. It is of high value on questions of training, procedure, the effect of telegraphic communication on the requirements and conditions of the service, the publication of dispatches. There is a helpful Index of fifty-four pages.
(b) Hammond, Adventures of a Paper in the Foreign Office, 1864, reprinted in Report of the Commission on the Diplomatic and Consular Services, 1871.[3]
Hertslet (Sir Edward), Recollections of the Old Foreign Office.[4]
(c) Parliamentary Paper, Miscellaneous, No. 5 (1912): Treatment of International Questions by Parliaments in European Countries, the United States, and Japan.[5]
(d) Fifth Report of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service: Diplomatic Corps and the Foreign Office.[6]
- ↑ 1885.
- ↑ pp. xx + 555.
- ↑ Com. Papers, 1871, vi. 197.
- ↑ 1901, pp. x + 275: ch. iv–v, 'Secretaries of State'; vi, 'Under Secretaries'; vii, 'Foreign Office Officials' (including Edmund Hammond and Lewis Hertslet. 'There have been four generations of the Hertslet family in the Foreign Office since 1795', p. 144, f.n.); viii, 'King's (Queen's) Messengers'; ch. xi, 'Diplomatists and Consuls'; Appendix, 'Secretaries of State' (historical and chronological).
- ↑ Cd. 6102.
- ↑ Cd. 7748 (1914)
