Sarah Brydges Willyams

Sarah's grandfather, Daniel Mendez da Costa, was a Sephardic Jewish merchant in Jamaica.

He agreed, and in the next twelve years they corresponded regularly, about their lives and the books they were reading,[4] and about their shared heritage: "I, like you, was not bred among my race, and was nurtured in great prejudice against them," he confessed in 1853, confident in her sympathy.

They exchanged not only letters, but flowers, plant cuttings, newspapers, venison, fish, birds, and even lobster.

[2] Charlotte von Rothschild gave an exaggerated and unflattering description of Mrs. Willyams in 1862, as "quite a miser, starves herself into a skeleton...keeps neither horses, nor carriages, nor men servants – only an enormous watchdog to protect her and her gold.

"[2] The Roxburghe Club published the correspondence between Disraeli and Brydges Willyams as a limited-edition volume in 2006.