The papers are almost entirely concerned with Macartney's embassy to Russia in 1764-1767, and include notes, memoranda, drafts of the trade treaty he negotiated, and a final copy; accounts of travel in Russia and general descriptions of the country, i...
Description:
George Macartney was born in Ireland and educated at Trinity College. In 1764, Lord Holland proposed him as envoy extraordinary to Saint Petersburg for the negotiation of a trade treaty. Knighted before departing England, Macartney returned in 1767 af...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Great Britain, Russia., Russia, and Siberia (Russia)
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796. and Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Diplomatic and consular service, British, Diplomatic and consular service, Russian, Diplomats, Commerce, Foreign relations, Politics and government, Court and courtiers, and Description and travel
Holograph letters on paper, written and signed in a Humanist cursive. Addressed to Raffaelo de' Medici, nuncio to the Imperial court at Antwerp, Ghinucci's letters contain detailed descriptions of his arrival at the court of Henry VIII; the receptions...
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England., Great Britain, Holy Roman Empire, and Holy Roman Empire.
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547, Matteo, Giovanni., Medici, Raffaelo de'., Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559., Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Court and courtiers, Foreign relations, Italians in Great Britain, Papal courts, Papal nuncios, Ambassadors, Diplomats, and Catholic Church
Manuscript in a single hand, written on vellum, describes in minute detail Waldegrave's negotiations with the Bey and Vizar in Bardo over the exchange of Corsican prisoners held in Tunis after the capture of the Maria Rosa as well as other diplomatic ...
Description:
William Waldegrave, first Baron Radstock (1753-1825), naval officer, born on 9 July 1753 in Kensington, London, second son of John Waldegrave, third Earl Waldegrave (1718-1784) and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower (1724-1784), daughter of the f...
Subject (Geographic):
Corsica (France), Tunisia, Great Britain., Great Britain, and Tunisia.
Subject (Name):
Minto, Gilbert Elliot, Earl of, 1751-1814., Radstock, William Waldegrave, Baron, 1753-1825., Rance, James P., Captain., St. Vincent, John Jervis, Viscount, 1735-1823., and Maria Rosa (Ship)
