Catalogue description Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Consulates and Legation, Mexico: General Correspondence

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Reference: FO 204
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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