Correspondence between Sir Robert Peel, William Ewart Gladstone, Rev Augustus P. Saunders and Charles Canning, regarding Saunders' desire to retire from the Headmastership of Charterhouse to a Cathedral stall.
Notes, memoranda, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and printed Parliamentary Bills relating to reforming the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and the College of St Mary, Winchester.
Memoranda on the disputed Venezuelan-Guyanan Boundary, including extracts from report by Mr Schomburg's survey of 1841. Copy of letter and memo from Charles Canning to William E. Gladstone regarding Venezuelan Treaty, June 1843.
Foreign Office correspondence with Rev Robert Walker of Oxford regarding Savilian Professorship of Astronomy and his application to the Duke of Wellington.
Foreign Office correspondence with John Ward of the Embassy in Berlin, including dealings with and articles in the German Press; letters and memoranda upon the treaty between the Zollverein and the United States, rejection by the American Senate, and Ward's explanation of this published widely i...
Foreign Office correspondence with the Duke of Westmorland, Berlin, including letters and dispatches discussing Zollverein; removal of Mr Ryan to another consulate; the German Press; affairs of the Prince of Capua; Greece office arrangements; articles from the Prussian Gazette; treaty between th...
Foreign Office correspondence with James Walter, writing from the 'Standard' Office, Liverpool, and Cheshire, complaining of the inefficiencies in the Government Messenger Service, the conduct of messengers etc., and seeking appointment.
Foreign Office correspondence with Dr Worthington, regarding access to Foreign Office sources of information for the Foreign and Colonial Quarterly Review, Dec 1842-Feb 1843. Includes correspondence with William Gladstone, and items forwarded by Stafford Northcote. Also request from Dr Worthingt...
Office of Woods papers relating to the erection of a statue in honour of the Duke of Wellington. Includes correspondence with Sir Robert Peel, and the Duke of Rutland (Chair of the Committee); watercolour and sketches of the proposed monuments; objections to placing an equestrian statue on the a...
Foreign Office, and other correspondence, including drafts, with: Lord Waterford, 11 Dec 1844, and 28 Feb 1845, regarding cadetship for George Meara's son. Richard Wilkinson, Syra [Syros?], 8 Feb 1842, acknowledging receipt of gift of inkstand and commenting on politics. Sir Alexander Woodfo...