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 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.
Copies of correspondence received from the Curia and British diplomatic agents in various parts of Italy from 1823-1833; also law officers on the possibility of establishing a diplomatic mission to the Holy See. Undated [c.1845] Draft speech on the Irish Potato Famine, with pp1-2 missing. Undat...
Newspaper cuttings regarding the progress of the Crimean War from 'The London Gazette', 'The Times', the 'Daily News', 'The Morning Chronicle', 'The Guardian' and 'L'Illustration'. Also includes printed copies of prayers.
Foreign Office memoranda and notes regarding negotiations with Naples in 1839, including Mr MacGregor's observations sent to Sir Robert Peel. Apr 1843. Also extracts of correspondence from Aug-Sep 1844 regarding the State of Negotiation of Neopolitan Treaty. Oct 1844.
Letters from the Honourable Charles Stuart Savile, France, requesting employment. Includes draft replies by Charles Canning, referring to payment of funds.
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.
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...
Foreign Office Correspondence with J.G. Young concerning the state of affairs in Rio de Janiero, changes in the Brazilian Government resulting in little change in Foreign Policy, reports from Lopez Gama on agitation in Brazil against proposed British Enactment on Slave Trade.