Record

Document Reference	Bu 19/47
Title	Letter from Lord Augustus Loftus, Berlin, Prussia, to Sir A. Buchanan, St Petersburg, Russia; 14 Dec 1866.
Date	14 December 1866
Extent	4 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Discusses the nature of the relationship between France, Austria, Prussia and Russia and the position of Prince Charles of Hohenzollern; comments on the position Gorchakov would take at the Conference of Paris and issues that would be discussed including the Danube Navigation Act; informs him the 'European politics' had been abandoned in Prussia while the new Parliament was being created; reports that Delbuck and Phipps were going to Vienna to open negotiations for a commercial treaty between the Zollverin and Austria; informs him that he and Benedetti had been invited to shoot with the King and they had hunted wild boar and deer.
Term	sports, hunting, wild boar
	sports, hunting, deer
	trade, Zollverein
	business and commerce
	parliamentary business, acts, Danube Navigation Act 1866
	politics, Prussian

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6729	Phipps; C. Edmund H. (1840-1911); Sir; diplomat	1840-1911
NA141	Gorchakov; Alexander M. (1798-1883); Prince; Russian Foreign Minister	1798-1883
NA6231	Wilhelm I (1797-1888); German Emperor; ( King of Prussia from 1861 German Emperor from 1871)	1797-1888
NA6717	Benedetti; Vincent (1817-1900); Count; French diplomat	1817-1900
NA6722	Carol I (1839-1914 ); King of Roumania; (prince 1866; king 1881)	1839-1914
NA6208	Loftus; Augustus W.F.S. (1817-1904); Lord; diplomat	1817-1904
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882