Catalogue description Southern Department and Foreign Office: Embassy, Ottoman Empire: Letter Books
Reference: | FO 261 |
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Title: | Southern Department and Foreign Office: Embassy, Ottoman Empire: Letter Books |
Description: |
This series contains letter books compiled during the embassy of Sir Robert Ainslie to the Ottoman empire. |
Date: | 1776-1794 |
Related material: |
For further records relating to Levant Company financed diplomacy see: |
Separated material: |
For a further letter book, containing the correspondence addressed to the Levant Company, see PRO 30/26/72 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
Foreign Office, Embassy, Ottoman Empire, 1782-1923 Southern Department, Embassy, Ottoman Empire, 1775-1782 |
Physical description: | 7 volume(s) |
Custodial history: | Volumes 1 and 3 to 7 were restored to the Foreign Office from private ownership in August 1917; volume 2 in August 1930. |
Administrative / biographical background: |
British diplomatic representation in the Ottoman Empire was financed by the Levant Company until 1804. |
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