Record

Document Reference	Bu 15/69
Title	Letter from 2nd Baron Bloomfield [J. Bloomfield], Vienna, Austria, to Sir A. Buchanan, Berlin, Prussia; 11 May 1864.
Date	11 May 1864
Extent	4 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Reports that Rechberg did not expect the Danes to refute recent agreements and that he now expected the Danes to make ridiculous demands at the forthcoming conference; it is his opinion that the neutral powers will have to intervene; states that it will be difficult for either of them to take any leave; notes that Prince Alfred had picked a good time to leave Berlin; comments on the forthcoming marriage of Elma Bruce to [Thomas, 5th Baron] Thurlow who had been a favourite of Lord Elgin; discusses Italy and Garibaldi; states that Ridgeway had arrived but that he had not seen Rechberg.
Term	military campaigns, Second Schleswig-Holstein War 1863-4

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6540	Rechberg; Johann B. (1806-1899); Count; Austrian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister	1806-1899
NA6272	Alfred (1844-1900); Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Edinburgh; (2nd son of Queen Victoria)	1844-1900
NA6577	Bruce; Elma Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming- (-1923); Baroness Thurlow; dau. of 8th Earl of Elgin and wife of 5th Baron Thurlow	-1923
NA6578	Bruce; Thomas J. Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming- (1838-1916); 5th Baron Thurlow; assumed names of Cumming-Bruce in right of his wife	1838-1916
NA987	Bruce; James (1811-1863); 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine	1811-1863
NA6278	Garibaldi; Giuseppe (1807-1882); General	1807-1882
NA6057	Bloomfield; John A.D. (1802-1879); 2nd Baron Bloomfield; diplomat	1802-1879
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882