- A11.
- File
- 1852
Part of Nassau Senior papers
Journal containing notes on Senior's visit to Brussels, 5-16 April 1852. The major topic of conversation is the political situation in Belgium in relation to the coup d'état in France. Conversations with: Leopold I, King of Belgium (1790-1865); Arrivabene; Conte du Lalaing (b. 1780); Philip de Molinari (1792-1870); Edouard Ducpetiaux (1804-68); Lamoriciere; Charles Rogier (1800-85); Hubert Frère-Orban (1812-96); Mr Gould [US minister in Hawaii], et al. There are conversations on English politics; Belgian agriculture, education, nobility, etc.; political situation in various European countries; Hawaii; and North Africa.
[Published in Conversations with M. Thiers, M. Guizot, and Other Distinguished Persons During the Second Empire, ed. by M. C. M. Simpson (London, 1878).]