Record

Document Reference	Bu 30/50
Title	Letter from Sir H. Elliot, Constantinople, Turkey, to Sir A. Buchanan, Vienna, Austria; 15 Dec 1876.
Date	15 December 1876
Extent	4 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Informs him that the conference was not going well and that Ignatiev and the Russians were phrasing their proposals so that they would be rejected by Turkey; reports Lord Salisbury had attempted to keep proceedings informal, but Ignatiev had insisted on strict formality being observed; reports that he had written to Lord Derby to state he was taking leave, whatever the outcome of the conference.
Term	military campaigns, Montenegrin-Serbian-Ottoman War 1876

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6662	Cecil; Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne- (1830-1903); 3rd Marquess of Salisbury; succ. 1868; Prime Minister 1885, 1886-92	1830-1903
NA144	Stanley; Edward H. (1826-1893); 15th Earl of Derby; statesman	1826-1893
NA6704	Ignatieff; Nikolai P. (1832-1908); Count; general and diplomat	1832-1908
NA6100	Elliot; Henry G. (1817-1907); Sir	1817-1907
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882