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Series
Foreign Office: Confidential Print North America
Catalogue reference: FO 414
What's it about?
FO 414
This series contains confidential print relating to North America. It comprises selected correspondence and papers relating to the United States and Canada; and to Mexico to 1919. There were no issues of correspondence for 1917-1918
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 414
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Confidential Print North America
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1728-1970
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains confidential print relating to North America. It comprises selected correspondence and papers relating to the United States and Canada; and to Mexico to 1919. There were no issues of correspondence for 1917-1918
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 486 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2017 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7728/
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