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Series
Foreign Office: Chinese Secretary's Office, Embassy and Legation, Peking, China:...
Catalogue reference: FO 1080
What's it about?
FO 1080
This series contains miscellaneous records, other than registered correspondence, created or held in the Chinese Secretary's Office in the British Legation, later the British Embassy, in Peking. The material includes draft correspondence, drafts...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 1080
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Chinese Secretary's Office, Embassy and Legation, Peking, China: Miscellanea
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1833-1951
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains miscellaneous records, other than registered correspondence, created or held in the Chinese Secretary's Office in the British Legation, later the British Embassy, in Peking. The material includes draft correspondence, drafts and printed texts of treaties, copies of regulations and proclamations, calling cards and textbooks and examination papers for students of Chinese.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
With the help of a grant from the Oriental Documents Committee of the British Academy, Mr P D Coates, a former member of the consular service in China, and acting Chinese Secretary 1944-1946, worked from 1978 to 1984 to reconstitute the original archival order of much of the registered correspondence and separate out the bulk of the miscellanea to form the present series. The catalogue of this series is based on his work. Neither the original archival arrangement of the Chinese Secretary's Office's miscellanea, nor Mr Coates's intentions in sorting them, is entirely clear.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- FO 682
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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)
- Chinese and English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 393 papers and volumes
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Restrictions on use (Information on restrictions to the use or reproduction of the material)
- Additional safe handling procedures are in place. Records must be ordered in advance.
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8379/
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