Catalogue description Southern Department and Foreign Office: Embassy, Ottoman Empire: Letter Books

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Details of FO 261
Reference: FO 261
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:

SP 97

SP 105

SP 110

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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