Catalogue description Foreign Office: Thornton Papers

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Reference: FO 933
Title: Foreign Office: Thornton Papers
Description:

There are two separate collections in this series: the papers of Sir Edward Thornton, diplomatist (1766-1852), consisting very largely of archives of various embassies and consulates to which he was posted during his official career, principally those in Hamburg and Hanse Towns, Sweden and Portugal; and those of his son Sir Edward Thornton, diplomatist (1817-1906), consisting mainly of copies of official correspondence relating to his various embassies, chiefly those in the USA and Russia, and private correspondence relating to official matters.

Date: 1793-1886
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 117 file(s)
Immediate source of acquisition:

, in 1970

E P Thornton, 1970-1970 , in 1970

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