Record

Document Reference	Bu 25/35
Title	Letter from E. Hammond [later 1st Baron Hammond], Foreign Office, London, to Sir A. Buchanan, St Petersburg, Russia; 28 Nov 1870.
Date	28 November 1870
Extent	2 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Sends a messenger with an answer to the last Prussian despatch and discusses a possible conference with reference to the attitudes of Bismarck, Gorchakov and Bernstorff but did not know what the French reaction to the suggested conference would be; states that everyone was alert for news of battles; reports that the only information from Odo Russell came by telegraph; commends his handling of Prince Gorchakov.
Term	military campaigns, Franco-Prussian War 1870-1
	unification, Germany
	communications, messengers
	communications, telegraphs

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA140	Bismarck; Otto E.L. von (1815-1898); Prince; German statesman and Prussian minister-president	1815-1898
NA6199	Bernstorff; Albrecht (1809-1873); Count	1809-1873
NA141	Gorchakov; Alexander M. (1798-1883); Prince; Russian Foreign Minister	1798-1883
NA6903	Russell; Odo W.L. (1829-1884); 1st Baron Ampthill; diplomat and statesman; styled Lord Odo Russell 1872-81	1829-1884
NA6023	Hammond; Edmund (1802-1890); 1st Baron Hammond	1802-1890
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882