Catalogue description Foreign Office: Consulate and Legation, Ionian Islands: Letter Books

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Reference: FO 348
Title: Foreign Office: Consulate and Legation, Ionian Islands: Letter Books
Description:

This series contains surviving entry books of the out-letters, mainly official, of Spiridion Foresti, successively consul in the Ionian Islands (which until 1797 formed a dependency on the Venetian republic) and (from 1803) minister resident to the Septinsular Republic itself. The correspondence is dated from the following places: March 1793-July 1797 and April-August 1799, Zante; September 1799-December 1803 and February 1805-July 1807, Corfu; September 1807, [at sea] off Cerigo; October 1807-September 1809, Malta; October 1809-February 1810, Zante; April 1810, Santa Marua [Levkas]; and May 1810 - January 1813, Zante.
Date: 1793-1813
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Foreign Office, Consulate, Ionian Islands, 1793-1813

Foreign Office, Legation, Ionian Islands, 1793-1813
Physical description: 7 volume(s)
Custodial history: This collection was received by the Foreign Office in 1937 from Sir Edward Crowe, whose father and uncle had been respectively vice-consul in Zante and consul in Corfu.

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