Gladstone’s letters to her may serve to show him as he was, in the midst of his labours in the Palmerston government—how little his native kindliness of heart and power of sympathy had been chilled or parched either by hard and ceaseless toil, or by the trying atmosphere of public strife.
Morley highlights Gladstone's enduring kindness and empathy despite the pressures of political life.
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