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Series
Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Chief Clerk's Department and...
Catalogue reference: FO 612
What's it about?
FO 612
This series contains correspondence of the Chief Clerk;s Department and Passport Office. There is no correspondence for the period 1906 to 1919. The contents of many of the volumes are not in strict chronological order.
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 612
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Chief Clerk's Department and Passport Office: Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1815-1974
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains correspondence of the Chief Clerk;s Department and Passport Office. There is no correspondence for the period 1906 to 1919. The contents of many of the volumes are not in strict chronological order.
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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 selection of special files, extracted annually, 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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 358 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure 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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- Topics
- International
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- For registers of correspondence (1868-1893 and 1898-1905) see FO 613
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7913/
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