Catalogue description Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulate, Uruguay (formerly United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata): General Correspondence

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Title: Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulate, Uruguay (formerly United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata): General Correspondence
Description:

This series contains general correspondence from the British embassy and consulate in Uruguay (part of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata until 1828).

Date: 1823-1965
Separated material:

Records 1925-1934 have been destroyed.

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

Foreign Office, Consulate, Uruguay, 1823-1968

Foreign Office, Embassy, Uruguay, 1828-1968

Physical description: 624 files and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The consul to Uruguay was raised to rank of consul-general in November 1830.

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