Division within FO1567-1994Records of Embassies, Legations, Consulates, etc
Embassy and Consular archives are made up of the papers produced by the staff of the permanent embassies and consulates situated abroad.
They consist of:
Dispatches and telegrams received by the missions from the Foreign Office in London and draft dispatches for reply;
Correspondence with the foreign ministry of the country to which they were accredited;
Correspondence with individuals and organisations, including British officials and representatives of business interests in the country (this correspondence between the embassy and the consular posts for the country concerned is not duplicated elsewhere);
Letterbooks of outgoing correspondence compiled at the embassy and consulate, but which fell into disuse as a form of record by the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries;
Registers of incoming and outgoing correspondence;
Miscellaneous material, including registers of births, marriages and deaths, shipping regulation papers, legal records and others.