Catalogue description Foreign Office: Superintendent of Trade, Legation, Peking, China: General Correspondence and Diaries

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Reference: FO 677
Title: Foreign Office: Superintendent of Trade, Legation, Peking, China: General Correspondence and Diaries
Description:

This series contains general correspondence and diaries from the Superintendent of Trade in China. Include some correspondence and diaries, 1759 to 1832, inherited from the East India Company; correspondence with naval and military officers, concerning the war of 1840 to 1841 and its aftermath, and with the Government of India; and a volume, 1859, of decisions in Consular Court appeal cases.

Date: 1759-1874
Related material:

For papers of Sir Henry Pottinger, Superintendent of Trade, 1841-1843, see FO 705

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

East India Company, 1600-1858

Foreign Office, Superintendent of Trade in China, 1837-1897

Physical description: 26 box(es)
Custodial history: This accumulation of papers was received (?by the Foreign Office) from China in 1956.
Administrative / biographical background:

A Superintendent of Trade in China was first appointed in 1837 and between 1840 and 1883 the office was normally combined with that of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary.

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