Notebook on legislation regarding the Roman Catholic Church, the proposed establishment of a Catholic episcopate in England, international law, and other notes entitled 'Papal Aggression'
Foreign Office correspondence with Sir Robert Peel, including drafts and copies, regarding dispute with Hanover over crown jewels, and seeking patronage for Mrs Noad's son. Aug 1843-Dec 1844.
Foreign Office papers, consisting of letter and memorandum from Mr Mellish, Sep 1845, relating to a Quarantine Congress between Britain and France. Also observations on the quarantine system in England and the Mediterranean by Charles A. Murray, Naples, Nov 1845.
Correspondence with Colonel Hugh Rose, Beyrouth [Beirut]
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Correspondence from Hugh Rose in Beirut. Several of the letters or dispatches on the political situation have been cut through with several slashes while undergoing quarantine.
Foreign Office, Office of Woods, and other correspondence, including copies and drafts, with: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 23 Nov 1845, regarding coloured glass for the Palm House. Draft Memorandum of Agreement between the Secretary of War and nurses serving in the British Army Hospitals in the...
Letters from the Honourable Charles Stuart Savile, France, requesting employment. Includes draft replies by Charles Canning, referring to payment of funds.
Board of Trade draft memorandum on treaty with Spain, and correspondence with Mr [John] Macgregor requesting Charles Canning's view on the draft, Feb-Mar 1844. Miscellaneous papers regarding Spain: Memorandum regarding Act passed by the United States respecting Tonnage Duties on Spanish vessels...
Correspondence and memoranda with Lord Aberdeen and Lord Ripon regarding the Stade Trade Convention, Sep-Oct 1842. Also includes copy of a letter dated 1834 from Lord Palmerston to Baron Ompteda regarding Hanoverian duties.
Foreign Office correspondence between John James Sturz and Charles Canning; includes information relating to the terms of his secret employment by Foreign Office; Anglo-Brazilian political and commercial relations with newspaper cuttings on the same; the Brazilian slave trade; activity as a pamph...
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.