Record

Document Reference	Bu 5/11
Title	Letter from A. Magenis, Stockholm, Sweden, to A. Buchanan, Copenhagen, Denmark; 20 Dec 1855.
Date	20 December 1855
Extent	4 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Informs him that a treaty has been ratified preventing Russia gaining a port in Norway which does not freeze in winter; Sweden has changed policy and is likely to support the British cause; states that he has little hope of a solution and feels Plessen is supporting the Russian cause, when as a Danish Minister, he should adopt his Government's line; expresses surprise at Valdes' suicide but had thought him a bore; does not know anything of his wife; remarks on the connection of the Beresford family to the de la Poer's; the port was frozen and it would be expensive to cut a passage through; comments that the American speculation was a failure and unlikely to be repeated.
Term	military campaigns, Crimean War 1853-6
Term	death, suicide

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6076	Plessen; Schale (fl 1849-1865); Baron; Danish statesman	fl 1849-1865
NA6196	Beresford; Henry (1811-1859); 3rd Marquess of Waterford; succeeded 1826	1811-1859
NA6197	Beresford; Louisa (1818-1891); Marchioness of Waterford; née Stuart wife of 3rd Marquess	1818-1891
NA6198	Valdes; - (-1855); -; committed suicide	-1855
NA6168	Magenis; Arthur C. (1801-1867); Sir; diplomat	1801-1867
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882