Record

Document Reference	Bu 19/45
Title	Letter from Lord Augustus Loftus, Berlin, Prussia, to Sir A. Buchanan, St Petersburg, Russia; 7 Sep 1866.
Date	7 September 1866
Extent	4 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	States that he is uncertain if the letter will reach him before he leaves St Petersburg; informs him that he is unaware of Manteuffel's mission to see Gorchakov; discusses the peace settlement and the position of the King [George] and Crown Prince [Ernest Augustus] of Hanover and the offer of Brunswick to the Crown Prince which was declined; informs him that reports from Paris say that Benedetti is to go to Constantinople and that the fate of Drouyn is uncertain; congratulates him on the marriage of William Stuart and compliments his bride; reports that the situation in Vienna was very unstable.
Term	appointments, diplomatic, French

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6526	George V (1819-1878); King of Hanover; reigned 1851-1866 also 2nd Duke of Cumberland	1819-1878
NA6727	Ernst August (1845-1923); 3rd Duke of Cumberland; (head of the house of Hanover)	1845-1923
NA141	Gorchakov; Alexander M. (1798-1883); Prince; Russian Foreign Minister	1798-1883
NA6572	Manteuffel; Edwin H.K.F. von (1809-1885); General; Prussian soldier	1809-1885
NA6234	Stuart; William (1824-1896); Sir; diplomat	1824-1896
NA6728	Stuart; Georgiana (-1901); Lady Stuart; née Tremenheere wife of Sir William Stuart	-1901
NA6491	Drouyn de l'Huys; Edouard (1805-); Monsieur; diplomat and statesman French Foreign Minister from 1852	1805-
NA6208	Loftus; Augustus W.F.S. (1817-1904); Lord; diplomat	1817-1904
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882