Record

Document Reference	Bu 46/135
Title	Letter from A. Buchanan, Madrid, Spain, to 3rd Earl of Malmesbury [J. Harris], Foreign Office, London; 6 Jan 1859.
Date	6 January 1859
Extent	2 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Discusses a speech made by Calderón Collantes in which he made references to comments made by the President of the United States concerning the Cuban claims; reports Mr Collantes was under the misapprehension that the British claimants would be 'satisfied with less than the full amount of the duties which they conceived themselves to have been improperly called upon to pay by the authorities in Cuba'; reports Mr Collantes spoke 'with some bitterness' of the United States who had made a question of such an insignificant subject.
Term	Spanish affairs, government
	foreign relations, Spain and U.S.A.
	imports and exports, customs and excise

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6255	Collantes; Saturnino Calderón- (1799-1864); Señor; Spanish Foreign Minister 1853-63	1799-1864
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882
NA6098	Harris; James H. (1807-1889); 3rd Earl of Malmesbury	1807-1889