Record revealed
Letters from the curator of St Vincent Botanic Gardens
Discover how plants travelled across the British Empire in the 19th century and the effect this has on our natural environment, and eating habits, today.
Series
Foreign Office: Permanent Under Secretary's Department: Correspondence and Papers
Catalogue reference: HD 3
What's it about?
HD 3
This series contains correspondence and papers for the period 1822 to 1909, except for HD 3/17 which is dated 1742 to 1792. The files deal with the administration of the secret vote under the Civil List Act 1792 by the Under-secretaries appointed...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HD 3
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Permanent Under Secretary's Department: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1742-1909
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains correspondence and papers for the period 1822 to 1909, except for HD 3/17 which is dated 1742 to 1792. The files deal with the administration of the secret vote under the Civil List Act 1792 by the Under-secretaries appointed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Foreign Office, Office of the Permanent Under Secretary of State, 1823-1949
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 142 papers
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1993-2005 Secret Intelligence Service
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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
- Government finances
- International
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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/C8666/
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