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Letters from the curator of St Vincent Botanic Gardens
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Series
Foreign Office: Card Indexes to Correspondence from 1906 to 1920
Catalogue reference: FO 1111
What's it about?
FO 1111
This series consists of index cards prepared in the three Foreign Office sub-registries to provide means of reference to the general correspondence of the Foreign Office. The cards in this series provided the index to general correspondence of...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FO 1111
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Card Indexes to Correspondence from 1906 to 1920
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Date (When the record was created)
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1906-1920
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of index cards prepared in the three Foreign Office sub-registries to provide means of reference to the general correspondence of the Foreign Office.
The cards in this series provided the index to general correspondence of most Foreign Office departments in the system in force between 1 January 1906 and 20 November 1920 for registering papers passing through the office.
Digital copies of the FO 1111 card index are available to download. Please see the research guide to Foreign Office correspondence 1906-1919 for information on how to use the digitised index cards.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Alphabetically by year.
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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card(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Foreign Office
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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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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File series ran from 1906 to 1920
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No further accruals.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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All index cards selected.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8410/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: FO
Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office
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Foreign Office: Card Indexes to Correspondence from 1906 to 1920
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