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Document Reference	Bu 46/46
Title	Letter from A. Buchanan, Madrid, Spain, to 3rd Earl of Malmesbury [J. Harris], Foreign Office, London; 7 Feb 1859.
Date	7 February 1859
Extent	2 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Reveals the Spanish Government cannot find any documents showing that the stores supplied to them during the Civil War of 1835 were ever received; reports that unless receipts can be produced to show that Spanish authorities received these stores, the Spanish Government will feel under no obligation to repay the debt; explains the absence of these documents is due to a fire in the War Office and to the 'unsatisfactory manner in which accounts seem to have been kept during the confusion of the Civil War'; reveals the receipts appear to have been forwarded to the Spanish Government in 1835; reports that if these documents can be produced the debt will be settled in a fortnight.
Term	Spanish affairs, government
	foreign affairs, Spain and Great Britain, debt
	wars, Spanish Civil War 1835
	arms and weapons, supply of
	trade, arms and armaments

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882
NA6098	Harris; James H. (1807-1889); 3rd Earl of Malmesbury	1807-1889

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