Mrs. Brydges Willyams and Benjamin Disraeli

struggle far more than from the Jewish Renascence in Amsterdam that the chief spiritual impulses came which vibrated so powerfully in the London Marrano community during the eventful years 1655-1656.

Lucien Wolf.

April 1915.

6 Mrs. Brydges Willyams and Benjamin Disraeli.

A note in the recently published third volume of the Life of Disraeli (p. 454) credits me with the discovery that the mysterious Mrs. Sarah Brydges “Willyams nee Mendez da Costa, who left some ??40,000 to Benjamin Disraeli, was a daughter of Abraham Mendez da Costa of Bath, who died in 1782. As the identity of this lady has long puzzled Jewish genealogists and students of Disraeliana, it may be worth while to place on record the simple but indisputable evidence on which my identification rests. This is contained in the following hitherto un printed letter of Mrs. Willyams to Disraeli, written in reply to the letter from him

Written by

Lucien Wolf

Published in

Volume 1

1893

Other articles within the volume

• JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. REPORT, 1893-94 [etc.]
• THE DEBTS AND HOUSES OF THE JEWS OF HEREFORD IN 1290
• LITTLE ST. HUGH OF LINCOLN. RESEARCHES IN HISTORY, ARCHÆOLOGY, AND LEGEND
• CRYPTO-JEWS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH
• A HOMAGE TO MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL
• THE DOMUS CONVERSORUM
• A HEBREW ELEGY
• A PLEA FOR ANGLO-JEWISH HISTORY, Inaugural Address delivered at the first meeting of the society, November 11th, 1893
• Anglo-Judaica in the Catalogue of the British Museum Hebrew Manuscripts
• The Northampton “Donum” of 1194
• The Lehman—Goldsmid Litigation
• “Theodore Cyphon.”
• Jews and the Coral Trade
• The Netherbury Tombstone
• Passes Issued to Jews in the Period 1689 to 1696
• Colonial Commerce
• Mrs. Brydges Willyams and Benjamin Disraeli
• Maria Fernandez de Carvajal
• Extracts from the Close Rolls, 1289—1368
• Charles Dickens and Eliza Davis
• A Petition from Haslemere in 1753
• The Bodleian Bowl
• PREFACE.