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Folio 96: Finch to Weston. Cypher now being old, a new one needed. Enclose a scheme...

Catalogue reference: SP 91/26/96

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This record is about the Folio 96: Finch to Weston. Cypher now being old, a new one needed. Enclose a scheme... dating from 1740 Nov 1 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Russia. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 91/26/96
Date
1740 Nov 1
Description

Folio 96: Finch to Weston. Cypher now being old, a new one needed. Enclose a scheme for diversifying the old, as there will be many important and secret things hereafter to transmit. Are letters sealed new way any better? Mourning being prepared for household and equipage. Will need repayment, the expense being high, and will charge for it in my extraordinaries. Dated St Petersburg 1 Nov 1740.

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Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Russia

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Folio 96: Finch to Weston. Cypher now being old, a new one needed. Enclose a scheme...

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