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2 items (originally accompanying a notification to British residents [in Hakodate]...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/990
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This record is about the 2 items (originally accompanying a notification to British residents [in Hakodate]... dating from [1863] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MFQ 1/990
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1863]
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2 items (originally accompanying a notification to British residents [in Hakodate] from F Lowde, British Consulate, 6 July 1863) extracted from FO 262/58 (folios 57-58). Japan: Yezo (now Hokkaido): Hakodate. 2 sheets of ink drawings, showing: (1) the location of the proposed British cemetery relative to other (i.e. American, Japanese, Russian) cemeteries; (2) 'Gateway to Cemetery': front view of a Japanese-style gate. Signed and certified as true copies by Fred[erick] Lowde. Lowde's notification requested voluntary subscriptions towards the purchase of land for the cemetery; both notification and drawings were subsequently enclosed in despatch number 45 from the British Consulate in Hakodate to the Acting Consul General, Yedo (now Tokyo), 8 July 1863.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- English
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- 27 cm x 41 cm
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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of various departments held...
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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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