Series
Southern Department and Foreign Office: Embassy, Ottoman Empire: Letter Books
Catalogue reference: FO 261
Date: 1776-1794
This series contains letter books compiled during the embassy of Sir Robert Ainslie to the Ottoman empire.
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United States of America: Alaska, British Columbia. 'A Chart shewing part of the...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/1666
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This record is about the United States of America: Alaska, British Columbia. 'A Chart shewing part of the... dating from 1798-1886 in the series Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- FO 925/1666
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1798-1886
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United States of America: Alaska, British Columbia. 'A Chart shewing part of the Coast of N W America with the tracks of His Majesty's Sloop Discovery and Armed Tender Chatham, Commanded by George Vancouver Esq. and prepared under his immediate inspection by Lieutenant Joseph Baker...'. Shows the coastline between 51° 45'N and 57°30'N. Soundings. Routes of outward and return journeys, with dates. Scale: 1 inch to 14 miles. Inset: Port Stewart, at a scale of 2 inches to 1 mile; compass indicator. Engraved by Warner. Published by J Edwards, Pall Mall, and G Robinson, Paternoster Row, 1 May 1798. Noted as enclosure number 2 in Mr Phelps' letter of 19 January 1886.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Photozincographed
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- International
- Maps and plans
- Americas
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 2157
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3818230/
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