Series
Southern Department and Foreign Office: Embassy, Ottoman Empire: Letter Books
Catalogue reference: FO 261
Date: 1776-1794
This series contains letter books compiled during the embassy of Sir Robert Ainslie to the Ottoman empire.
Series
Foreign Office: Thornton Papers
Catalogue reference: FO 933
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FO 933
There are two separate collections in this series: the papers of Sir Edward Thornton, diplomatist (1766-1852), consisting very largely of archives of various embassies and consulates to which he was posted during his official career, principally...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 933
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Thornton Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1793-1886
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Description (What the record is about)
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There are two separate collections in this series: the papers of Sir Edward Thornton, diplomatist (1766-1852), consisting very largely of archives of various embassies and consulates to which he was posted during his official career, principally those in Hamburg and Hanse Towns, Sweden and Portugal; and those of his son Sir Edward Thornton, diplomatist (1817-1906), consisting mainly of copies of official correspondence relating to his various embassies, chiefly those in the USA and Russia, and private correspondence relating to official matters.
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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)
- 117 file(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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E P Thornton, 1970-1970
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8232/
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