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Series
Foreign Office: Consulate and Legation, Dresden and Leipzig, Saxony: Letter Books
Catalogue reference: FO 216
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FO 216
This series contains letterbooks of the British legations at Dresden and Coburg relating to the kingdom of Saxony, the grand duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, the duchies of Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Saxe-Meiningen, and the principality...
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FO 216
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Consulate and Legation, Dresden and Leipzig, Saxony: Letter Books
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Date (When the record was created)
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1816-1862
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains letterbooks of the British legations at Dresden and Coburg relating to the kingdom of Saxony, the grand duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, the duchies of Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Saxe-Meiningen, and the principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont.
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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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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)
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- Foreign Office, Consulate, Dresden, Germany, 1816-1914
- Foreign Office, Consulate, Leipzig, Germany, 1836-1914
- Foreign Office, Legation, Dresden, Germany, 1816-1914
- Foreign Office, Legation, Leipzig, Germany, 1845-1914
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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4 volume(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7530/
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Foreign Office: Consulate and Legation, Dresden and Leipzig, Saxony: Letter Books
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