he would always regret 'occasioning any trouble or uneasiness to your Grace in so doing.' He suggested three possibilities: to continue publication under the Duke's direction; to continue printing and to deposit the whole with the Duke for private consumption; to discontinue the project altogether. Gurwood knew that he was being extremely presumptuous in writing this letter. The Duke seems not to have sent a written reply but it is a sign of his respect for Gurwood's abilities that the first option was followed and the project continued. Volume IV (the first of those on the Peninsula War) was published at the end of 1835 and John Murray, the publisher, told Gurwood that there was already much interest in the next volume. As with the Indian volumes there were problems in locating papers and there was a particular problem with the year from December 1809 for which the Duke's papers had been lost in a shipwreck in the Tagus. Gurwood made strenuous and prolonged efforts to obtain papers from a wide range of the Duke's correspondents writing, often several times, to individuals or their descendants. He made a number of searches in official collections including the Inspector General's office at the Ordnance and the Commander in Chief's Office, and he wrote to Lisbon to ask for a search for the Duke's letters to Admiral Berkeley which were believed to be in the Portuguese War Office. Some people were very keen to see references to themselves in print but others were unhappy about it. Lord Clarendon said that he wished to be helpful but had been hurt by his depiction in Napier's HIstory. The Duke assured him that there would be nothing that did not redound to his credit, and that they could rely on Gurwood not to publish 'any thing affecting any individual or events public which should not be published'. Lord Clarendon was not the only one to smart under Napier's strictures and to worry about further damage to their reputations. Gurwood told Duke in May 1836 that 'almost every person who has assisted me in the compilation has made, or suggested, stipulations.' The Duke himself continued to be concerned about the inclusion of material, in December 1835 arguing for the omission of two letters that he had written in August 1809 to Marquis Wellesley and Lord Castelreagh saying that the indisicpline and ineffectiveness of the Spanish army had