Sterne's letters and Mss

Lionel Curtis, Imperial Citizenship, and the Quest for Unity

“…32 In the wake of Confederation in Canada, and increased intercolonial cooperation in Australia, intellectuals and public figures such as the Canadian George R. Parkin had urged that London adopt the federal system 59. Metcalfe argues that authoritative liberalism was the ideological consequence of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, an event that scuppered the certainties of an earlier imperial liberalism, voiced by India men such as the senior and junior Mill (44)(45). He asserts that the second half of the nineteenth century was marked by a new emphasis on race and the consequent ordering of a typology of difference.…”

“…44 The original impetus for anonymity was to reflect a group consensus on issues, and minimize allegations of personal bias. 45 The principle of anonymity was also applied to the creation of the group's plan for union, dubbed the "Green Memorandum." Curtis, however, came to be the guiding force, writing the final copy and indeed almost the entirety of earlier drafts.…”

“…Curtis, however, came to be the guiding force, writing the final copy and indeed almost the entirety of earlier drafts. When the document was finally offered to the public for perusal as The Problem of the Commonwealth (1916), with an initial press run of five thousand copies, 46 Curtis felt compelled to state in the preface that "the writer himself has, of necessity, had to decide what to reject and what to accept. He has no authority for stating, therefore, that the report represents any opinion but his own."…”