Catalogue description Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulate, Beirut, Lebanon (formerly Ottoman Empire): General Correspondence and Letter Books

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Reference: FO 226
Title: Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulate, Beirut, Lebanon (formerly Ottoman Empire): General Correspondence and Letter Books
Description:

This series contains correspondence and letter books of the consulate, consulate general, and British military force in Syria,1840 to 1841; and letter books of Colonel A J Fraser, while on special service in Syria, 1860, and as British representative on the European Commission in Syria, 1861 to 1862; files of correspondence of the consulate general, 1810 to 1914; files of the Beirut Legation, 1942 to 1945; and two files of the Spears Mission, 1942.

Date: 1810-1955
Related material:

For further records of the Spears Mission see WO 202

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

European Commission in Syria, 1861-1862

Foreign Office, Consulate, Beirut, Lebanon, 1920-1968

Foreign Office, Embassy, Lebanon, 1942-1968

War Office, Spears Mission to Syria and Lebanon, 1942-1942

Physical description: 315 files and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

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