Catalogue description Foreign Office: Consulates, Asmara, Harar and Mega, Ethiopia (formerly Abyssinia): General Correspondence and Registers of Correspondence

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Reference: FO 742
Title: Foreign Office: Consulates, Asmara, Harar and Mega, Ethiopia (formerly Abyssinia): General Correspondence and Registers of Correspondence
Description:

This series contains records from various British consulates in Abyssinia (later Ethiopia). Comprises despatches and correspondence of the consular posts at Mega, 1920 to 1933, and at Asmara from 1947, with registers of correspondence of the Harar consulate, 1899 to 1934.

Date: 1899-1965
Separated material:

The correspondence to which the registers refer have been destroyed.

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

Foreign Office, Consulate, Asmara, Ethiopia, 1947-1952

Foreign Office, Consulate, Harar, Abyssinia, 1899-1947

Foreign Office, Consulate, Mega, Abyssinia, 1922-1963

Physical description: 27 files and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

Public Record Office

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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