Fallodon Papers

by Edward Grey

1947. Reprint. 176 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Ring mark to front board. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Moderate foxing. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Mild water staining to front panel.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1947

About the author

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon KG, PC, FZL, DL, better known as Sir Edward Grey, was a British Liberal statesman who served as Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916.

Reviews

[Simon · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a collection of short papers written in the early 1920s by Lord Grey the former British foreign secretary famous for his “ lamps are going off all over Europe “ quite who steered foreign policy from 1905 to 1916.

I read these because Lord Alanbrooke CIGS during WW2 found such solace in them at the height of the crisis and I was intrigued to find in what they consisted .

In fact they are a very coherent blissful series of musings on how to stay sane by communing with your inner self through the medium of nature and contemplation. Interesting that 2 of our wartime leaders got such joy from bird watching , fly fishing , reading generally and reading Wordsworth particularly.

The tone of the narrator here is languid, kindly civilised . It is an insight into a long past world but where the attractions of nature and the ensuing contemplation are ballast against the flim flam of worldly troubles .