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Letters from the curator of St Vincent Botanic Gardens
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Series
Foreign Office: Confidential Print Western Europe
Catalogue reference: FO 425
What's it about?
FO 425
This series contains confidential print relating to Western Europe. It comprises selected correspondence and papers relating to Gibraltar, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland, to 1946; to Finland, Italy and the Vatican, to 1918; to Austria,...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 425
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Confidential Print Western Europe
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1728-1973
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains confidential print relating to Western Europe. It comprises selected correspondence and papers relating to Gibraltar, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland, to 1946; to Finland, Italy and the Vatican, to 1918; to Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Norway and Sweden, to 1919: to Belgium, France and Luxembourg, to 1933 and 1942 to 1946; and to the Netherlands, to 1936 and 1942 to 1946. The volumes for 1947 onwards contain general correspondence only.
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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)
- 743 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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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are expected.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7739/
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Foreign Office: Confidential Print Western Europe
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