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Series
Sir Ernest Mason Satow: Papers
Catalogue reference: PRO 30/33
What's it about?
PRO 30/33
Private, diplomatic and other correspondence, letter books, diaries and papers of Sir Ernest Mason Satow. The collection includes his diary, which covers a period of over sixty five years (1861 to 1926).With the exception of a few drafts among...
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PRO 30/33
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Title (The name of the record)
- Sir Ernest Mason Satow: Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1856-1927
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Description (What the record is about)
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Private, diplomatic and other correspondence, letter books, diaries and papers of Sir Ernest Mason Satow. The collection includes his diary, which covers a period of over sixty five years (1861 to 1926).
With the exception of a few drafts among those addressed to Lord Reay, the letters are all originals which appear to have been returned to Sir Ernest Satow after the death of their several recipients.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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A Foreign Office register of official correspondence relating to Sir Ernest Satow's period of service in Peking can be found in FO 350
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Not Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Satow, Ernest Mason, 1843-1929
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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23 box(es)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Sir Ernest Mason SatowKnight, 1843-1929
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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After serving in the Japan consular service from 1861 to 1884 and becoming Japanese secretary to the legation in Tokyo, Sir Ernest Satow was successively agent, and then minister, to Siam (1884 to 1888), minister to Uruguay (1888 to 1893) and envoy to Morocco (1893 to 1895), Japan (1895 to 1900) and China (1900 to 1906). After his retirement, he acted as British member of the permanent court of arbitration (1906 to 1912) and as one of the British plenipotentiaries at the second peace conference (1907), both at The Hague.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11979/
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Sir Ernest Mason Satow: Papers
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