Granville, George L.-G., Earl of, British. Stateman, several times Foreign and Colonial Minister, one of the closest political. Friends of Gladstone (1815-1891). Letter m. U. "Granville". 2 p. Double leaf. Folio. (London) 5.III.1872. To the Count Wolkenstein, the Austrian managing director in London, to whom he reports the approval of the British government for a joint project on the occasion of the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873: "I have the honor to acknowledge the Receipt of your Note of the 3rd ultimo, relative to the Participation of the Danube Commission in the International Exhibition proposed to be held at Vienna, and I now beg, in reply to state to you, for the information of the Austro Hungarian Government, that Her Majesty's Government have had much pleasure in instruction Her Majesty ́s Commissioner to cooperate with the Baron de Schlechter with the above object, which, as Her Majesty`s government understand, will be limited to matters in connection with navigation of the Danube".