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Catalogue description Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Consulates and Legation, Mexico: General Correspondence
| Reference: | FO 204 |
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| Title: | Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Consulates and Legation, Mexico: General Correspondence |
| Description: |
This series contains archives of the commissioners and plenipotentiaries who during the years 1823 to 1825 negotiated the establishment of commercial and diplomatic relations with Mexico; of the chargés d'affaires who succeeded them; of the legation from 1835 until the severance of relations in 1867; of the special mission which in May 1883 was appointed to negotiate a resumption of relations; of the legation again from November 1884; and of the consular authorities at Tampico and Vera Cruz, 1868 to 1882. There is no correspondence for the period 1935 to 1941. |
| Date: | 1822-1973 |
| Arrangement: |
By year and then (where applicable) by original file number. The item-level catalogue references reflect these file numbers and hence gaps occur in the sequence. |
| Separated material: |
Further legation correspondence, 1835-1866, is among the records of the British and Mexican Mixed Commission in FO 318 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, Mexico, 1968- Foreign Office, Consulates, Mexico, 1823-1867 Foreign Office, Consulates, Mexico, 1884-1968 Foreign Office, Embassy, Mexico, 1884-1968 Foreign Office, Legation, Mexico, 1823-1867 |
| Physical description: | 677 files and volumes |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
British diplomatic and commercial relations with Mexico were established in 1825, from which time to 1835, the UK was represented in Mexico by a charge d'affaires. In 1835, the mission was raised to legation status, but relations were broken off in 1867, until a legation was re-established in 1884. Relations were re-established at embassy level in 1884. |
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