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VOL. 15E Summary of Contents. Correspondence relating mainly to foreign affairs....
Catalogue reference: PRO 30/22/15E
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This record is about the VOL. 15E Summary of Contents. Correspondence relating mainly to foreign affairs.... dating from 1865 Sept. 2-29 in the series Lord John Russell: Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1865 Sept. 2-29
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VOL. 15E Summary of Contents. Correspondence relating mainly to foreign affairs. Foreign affairs: Austria: the commercial treaty: question of timber duties and other provisions. Correspondence: Lord Bloomfield; W. E. Gladstone, A. H. Layard; E. Hammond;W. Hutt; Duke of Somerset. R. Morier's state of Austria report (fs. 120-7). Foreign affairs: Prussia, Austria and Schleswig Holstein. The Queen's condemnation of Bismarck's "effrontery" and "iniquity" (Gen. Grey, fs. 11-13) but Palmerston considers it is "rather late" for the Queen's eyes to have been opened; he condemns conduct of Prussia and Austria towards the Duchies but he wants a strong Germany "..... to control those two ambitious and agressive powers, France and Russia" (fs. 77-80). Foreign affairs: Turkey, France and the Suez Canal: Sir H. Bulwer's denials of Layard's charges against him (fs. 52-5). Foreign affairs: Russia and Persia: suspicion of Russia's boundary policy. Correspondence: Sir A. Buchanan (fs. 7-10). Foreign affairs: Abyssinia: imprisonment of Consul Cameron and missionaries: arrangements for mission to King Theodore. Correspondence: A. H. Layard (fs. 45-8; 60-6; 71-6). Foreign affairs: U.S.A.: the Alabama claims W. V. Harcourt's views on the F.O. despatches (fs. 17-23); Gladstone's views (fs. 30-2). Foreign affairs: Mexico: Hon. P. C. Scarlett's adverse report on Emperor Maximilian (fs. 148-50). Foreign affairs: Diplomatic service: postings, transfers, reports. Ireland: question of prosecution of Fenian newspaper. Correspondence: Sir G. Grey (fs. 93-6). Proposed Irish university. Correspondence: Lord Wodehouse (fs. 139-44). Personal: J.R. will leave his valuable papers in the custody of "some very faithful friends" (to Hon. G. Elliot, fs 111-12). Personal: J.R's reissued historical essays: H. Reeve's acknowledgment of gift copy (fs. 118-19).
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VOL. 15E Summary of Contents. Correspondence relating mainly to foreign affairs....
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