Record

Document Reference	Bu 25/36
Title	Letter from E. Hammond [later 1st Baron Hammond], Foreign Office, London, to Sir A. Buchanan, St Petersburg, Russia; 21 Dec 1870.
Date	21 December 1870
Extent	2 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Expects that the proposed conference [on Franco/Prussian War] would soon go ahead, once the French had agreed; states that William Stuart would be the protocolist, which he preferred to going straight back to Buenos Aires; comments on the diplomacy of Bismarck, Gorchakov and Brunnow; reports that Lyons had gone to Barcelona; comments on Russian censorship.
Term	military campaigns, Franco-Prussian War 1870-1
Term	unification, Germany

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6234	Stuart; William (1824-1896); Sir; diplomat	1824-1896
NA140	Bismarck; Otto E.L. von (1815-1898); Prince; German statesman and Prussian minister-president	1815-1898
NA6099	Brunnow; Philipp I. von (1797-1875); Baron; Russian diplomat	1797-1875
NA6041	Lyons; Richard B.P. (1817-1887); 1st Earl Lyons; 2nd Baron Lyons cr. viscount 1881 and earl 1887; diplomat	1817-1887
NA141	Gorchakov; Alexander M. (1798-1883); Prince; Russian Foreign Minister	1798-1883
NA6023	Hammond; Edmund (1802-1890); 1st Baron Hammond	1802-1890
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882