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Hertslet Papers
Catalogue reference: FO 351
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FO 351
This series contains the collection of accounts, vouchers, registers, regulations and other papers relating to Foreign Service Messengers which was formed by Foreign Office librarian Lewis Hertslet in his capacity first as private agent and then...
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FO 351
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Title (The name of the record)
- Hertslet Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1730-1854
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the collection of accounts, vouchers, registers, regulations and other papers relating to Foreign Service Messengers which was formed by Foreign Office librarian Lewis Hertslet in his capacity first as private agent and then as superintendent of messengers.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For further records relating to messengers see FO 850
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
- Hertslet, Lewis, 1787-1870
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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51 volume(s)
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- Topics
- International
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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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Lewis Hertslet was born in November 1787. He entered the civil service and on 5th February 1801 was appointed as sub-librarian at the Foreign Office. On 6th January 1810 he became librarian and Keeper of the Papers. He was one of the two secretaries of the Lord Justices in England, while George IV was absent in Hanover in 1821.
He married Hannah Harriet Cooke, daughter of George Cooke of Westminster, and it was their youngest son (Sir) Edward Hertslet (1824-1902) who succeeded his father as Foreign Office librarian on 20th November 1857. Lewis Hertslet initiated and his son continued the two series of publications Hertslet's Commercial Treaties (from 1820) and British and Foreign State Papers which eventually, in 1922, became a single series published officially by the Foreign Office. Lewis Hertslet died on 16th March 1870.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7665/
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