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Series
Southern Department and Foreign Office: Embassy, Ottoman Empire: Letter Books
Catalogue reference: FO 261
What's it about?
FO 261
This series contains letter books compiled during the embassy of Sir Robert Ainslie to the Ottoman empire.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 261
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Title (The name of the record)
- Southern Department and Foreign Office: Embassy, Ottoman Empire: Letter Books
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1776-1794
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains letter books compiled during the embassy of Sir Robert Ainslie to the Ottoman empire.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For further records relating to Levant Company financed diplomacy see: SP 97 SP 105 SP 110
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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For a further letter book, containing the correspondence addressed to the Levant Company, see
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign Office, Embassy, Ottoman Empire, 1782-1923
- Southern Department, Embassy, Ottoman Empire, 1775-1782
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 7 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
- Middle East
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Volumes 1 and 3 to 7 were restored to the Foreign Office from private ownership in August 1917; volume 2 in August 1930.
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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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British diplomatic representation in the Ottoman Empire was financed by the Levant Company until 1804.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7575/
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Southern Department and Foreign Office: Embassy, Ottoman Empire: Letter Books
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