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Series
Foreign Office: Consulate and Legation, Ionian Islands: Letter Books
Catalogue reference: FO 348
What's it about?
FO 348
This series contains surviving entry books of the out-letters, mainly official, of Spiridion Foresti, successively consul in the Ionian Islands (which until 1797 formed a dependency on the Venetian republic) and (from 1803) minister resident to...
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FO 348
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Consulate and Legation, Ionian Islands: Letter Books
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Date (When the record was created)
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1793-1813
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains surviving entry books of the out-letters, mainly official, of Spiridion Foresti, successively consul in the Ionian Islands (which until 1797 formed a dependency on the Venetian republic) and (from 1803) minister resident to the Septinsular Republic itself. The correspondence is dated from the following places: March 1793-July 1797 and April-August 1799, Zante; September 1799-December 1803 and February 1805-July 1807, Corfu; September 1807, [at sea] off Cerigo; October 1807-September 1809, Malta; October 1809-February 1810, Zante; April 1810, Santa Marua [Levkas]; and May 1810 - January 1813, Zante.
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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, Ionian Islands, 1793-1813
- Foreign Office, Legation, Ionian Islands, 1793-1813
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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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
- Europe and Russia
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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This collection was received by the Foreign Office in 1937 from Sir Edward Crowe, whose father and uncle had been respectively vice-consul in Zante and consul in Corfu.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7662/
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Foreign Office: Consulate and Legation, Ionian Islands: Letter Books
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