Record

Document Reference	Bu 1/26
Title	Incomplete letter from H. Parish, Madrid, Spain, to A. Buchanan, Edinburgh, Scotland; 7 Feb 1833.
Date	7 February 1833
Extent	2 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Hoped he was enjoying his visit to Edinburgh and that he was getting on well with his wife to be; informs him he had given his remembrances to Stratford Canning and his wife, who were both well; comments on his social life in Madrid; informs him he would probably not receive his things from Constantinople until April; comments on the fortunes of Mahmoud [the Sultan of Turkey] and stated he hoped he would not 'purchase victory over his rebellious subject but the seizure of his independence'; refers to reports that he [Buchanan] was to succeed Kennedy. One quarter of folio 2 has been cut off.
Term	social life, Madrid
	appointments, diplomatic
	military campaigns, First Ottoman-Egyptian War 1830-3

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6021	Buchanan; Frances Katherine (-1854); Mrs; née Mellish 1st wife of Andrew Buchanan	-1854
NA6014	Canning; Eliza C. (-1882); Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffe; née Alexander	-1882
NA5991	Canning; Stratford (1786-1880); 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe	1786-1880
NA6006	Mahmoud II (1785-1839 ); Sultan of Turkey; ( succeeded 1808)	1785-1839
NA6022	Kennedy; John P. (1796-1879); Lieutenant-colonel; lieutenant Royal Engineers and secretary to Sir Charles Napier	1796-1879
NA6013	Parish; Henry H. (fl 1828-1859); Mr; diplomat	fl 1828-1859
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882