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Catalogue description Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Legation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: General Correspondence and Registers of Births and Correspondence
| Reference: | FO 743 |
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| Title: | Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Legation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: General Correspondence and Registers of Births and Correspondence |
| Description: |
This series contains registers of correspondence, a register of births, and files of correspondence of the British embassy and legation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Includes material relating to the disappearance of Colonel Fawcett, various notes and memoranda by Roger Casement, consul and council and committee files of the British Community. |
| Date: | 1815-1971 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English and Portuguese |
| Creator: |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1968-1972 Foreign Office, Embassy, Brazil, 1803-1968 Foreign Office, Legation, Brazil, 1815-1950 |
| Physical description: | 43 files and volumes |
| Restrictions on use: | Additional safe handling procedures are in place. Records must be ordered in advance. |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2001 Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Brazilian seat of government moved from Rio de Janeiro to the new city of Brasilia in 1960. A British embassy was built in Brasilia, and for a time Britain operated two embassies in Brazil, with Brasilia acting as the summer residence, and Rio de Janeiro the winter residence, of the ambassador. In 1972 the status of the office in Rio de Janeiro was downgraded to that of a consulate general. |
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