Catalogue description Foreign Office: Consulate and Legation, Greece (formerly Ottoman Empire): General Correspondence

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Reference: FO 286
Title: Foreign Office: Consulate and Legation, Greece (formerly Ottoman Empire): General Correspondence
Description:

This series contains general correspondence from the British legation and consulates in Greece.
Date: 1813-1973
Arrangement:

Arranged largely by date. The arrangement within each year varies.

  • FO 286/1-630 (up to October 1917): papers bound in volumes differentiated according to provenance, e.g. To Consuls, From Greek Government, etc.
  • FO 286/631-717 (1917-1919): files arranged in file number order and bound into volumes; a single sequence of item numbers applies across this range of pieces.
  • FO 286/718-1084 (1920-1929): files grouped under subject letters or (from 1923) letters and numbers and bound into volumes; when these records were originally listed, only selected files were described individually.
  • FO 286/1085-1145 (1930-1937): files arranged in file number order but not bound into volumes; as not all files have survived, gaps appear in the sequence of item numbers.
  • FO 286/1146-1461 (from 1942): files arranged in file number order but not bound into volumes; each file or part of multi-part file is a separate piece.

Separated material:

Correspondence for the period 1938 to 1941 has not survived. Legation correspondence for 1915 and the first six months of 1916 and for 1918 was also missing at transfer.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Foreign Office, Consulates, Greece, 1828-1968

Foreign Office, Consulates, Greece, Ottoman Empire, 1813-1828

Foreign Office, Legation, Greece, Ottoman Empire, 1813-1828
Physical description: 1461 boxes, files and rolls
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Accruals: Series is accruing
Unpublished finding aids:

For registers to 1860-1920 correspondence see FO 381 A list of the original prefix letters and numbers and the subjects allotted to them in 1923, with subsequent alterations - showing the years (in brackets) in which the changes took place is available in the reading rooms at The National Archives.

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