Mason to Slidell, June 8, 1864.

Mason wrote to Benjamin that Disraeli had said "to one of his friends and followers" that he would be prepared to bring forward some such motion as that prepared by Lindsay.

(Mason's _Mason_, p.500.To Benjamin, June 9, 1864.) Evidently the friend was Hunter.] [Footnote 1187: Mason Papers.

Slidell to Mason, June 9, 1864.] [Footnote 1188: _Ibid._, Mason to Slidell, June 29, 1864.] [Footnote 1189: Walpole, _History of Twenty-five Years_, Vol.

I, Ch.
VI.] [Footnote 1190: Mason's _Mason_, p.507.Mason to Benjamin, July 14, 1864.] [Footnote 1191: Mason Papers, July 16, 1864.] [Footnote 1192: _Ibid._, To Mason, July 17, 1864.] [Footnote 1193: _The Index_, July 21, 1864, p.