there was so much new material that Gurwood considered producing a second edition with the documents in their correct date order and running to a fourth volume. The booksellers were pressing for a reprint as the first edition was sold out. He decided in the end to issue three new volumes with all the papers, including much new material, placed in date order. His explanatory notes were excised, and the contents consisted only of letters written by the Duke with a few letters written to the Duke retained as (sometimes lengthy) footnotes. Volumes I - 3 of the New Edition were published in 1837. The Peninsula Dispatches Gurwood moved straight on to editing the papers relating to the Peninsula War and there was no suggestion this time that the papers should be only those in the public domain. Progress was slowed at first by the Duke's political commitments and by Gurwood's mission to Spain. There was a further serious consideration: the Duke was concerned about the consequences of publishing material relating to such recent events and to persons still living. When he returned corrected pages to Gurwood on 30 July 1835 he commented that they were as interesting as those about India but doubted the expediency of publishing them. He had cut out some parts and needed to look again at others otherwise he would 'certainly be involved in a Controversy with Nations as well as Individuals which will not be an agreeable pastime in my old age.' He was in addition confronted with the issue of the Convention of Cintra where he had known that he 'was the object of party violence, that the wish and intention of the Party at that time was to have a victim and that I was the Person fixed upon.' Gurwood replied on 1 August engaging directly with the Duke's concerns. He wrote that it was because the dispatches related to such important events as well as to the Duke's character and fame that the exact truth should be told: 'posterity' would otherwise be led into error 'by the imagination of historians.' As to the truths that might give offence to nations or individuals, they could 'with a diligent exercise of caution, under your Grace's guidance, be omitted as the general will supply ample authority.' No-one felt a stronger desire than he did to 'place the monument of truth before the world' but