@article{a84bdbe444e34071866f76466f0e59c5,
title = "Britain, prussia, russia and the galitzin letter: A reassessment",
author = "Schweizer, \{Karl W.\} and Leonard, \{Carol S.\}",
note = "Funding Information: * We would like to thank the Canada Council, the Inter-University Center for European Studies and the Bishop's University Research Fund, and to acknowledge the advice given by the late Professor Sir H. Butterfield, Professor D. Beales, Professor E. Hill, Dr M. Raeff, Professor P. Grimstead and Dr H. Kaplan during the writing of this article. We are also grateful to E. R. Dolgova, a consultant in Tsentral'nyi Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Drevnikh Aktov (Ts.G.A.D.A.) for invaluable help in decyphering the Galitzin dispatch. 1 A. Schaefer, Geschichte des Siebenjdhrigen Krieges (Berlin, 1874), 11, pt. 2, 251-75. 2 'Neskolko neizerstnykh ukazov i pisem Imp. Petra III', £aria (1871). Appendix 4-5. Keith to Mitchell, 8Jan. 1762, British Library, Additional Manuscripts (referred tohereafter as B.L. Add. MSS), 6825, fo. 209. N. B. Korobkov (ed.) Semiletniaia voina: Materialy 0 dtistviakh russkoi armi iflota (Moscow, 1948), pp. 808-10. The British government first learned ofthese dramatic developments via two lengthy reports from Robert Keith, the first dated 5 Jan. the second 8 Jan. 1762. These arrived in London on 28Jan. and 5 Feb. respectively. On 23 Feb. Peter issued a formal declaration to the Imperial, French and Swedish ministers, announcing his intention to restore Russian conquests and urging all other powers to do likewise. Mitchell to Bute, 19 March 1762, (London) Public Record Office State Papers Foreign (referred to hereafter as P.R.O., S.P.F.), 90/79. Keith to Bute, 11 March 1762, ibid. 91 /6g. Mercy d'Argenteau to Kaunitz, 26 Feb. 1762, Sbomik Imperatorskago Russkago Istoriceskago Obscestva, xvra, 164-5 (henceforth cited as SIRIO). ' On Keith see: K. Schweizer, 'Scottish diplomatists in the British diplomatic service 1714-1789', Scottish Tradition: Journal of the Canadian Association of Scottish Studies (1978), 115-36. G. Smyth, Memoirs and correspondence [official andfamiliar) of Sir R. Murray Keith (London, 1849), vol. 1.",
year = "1983",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1017/S0018246X00021051",
language = "American English",
volume = "26",
pages = "531--556",
journal = "The Historical Journal",
issn = "0018-246X",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
number = "3",
}