Catalogue description Foreign Office: Thornton Papers
Reference: | FO 933 |
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Title: | Foreign Office: Thornton Papers |
Description: |
There are two separate collections in this series: the papers of Sir Edward Thornton, diplomatist (1766-1852), consisting very largely of archives of various embassies and consulates to which he was posted during his official career, principally those in Hamburg and Hanse Towns, Sweden and Portugal; and those of his son Sir Edward Thornton, diplomatist (1817-1906), consisting mainly of copies of official correspondence relating to his various embassies, chiefly those in the USA and Russia, and private correspondence relating to official matters. |
Date: | 1793-1886 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Physical description: | 117 file(s) |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
, in 1970 E P Thornton, 1970-1970 , in 1970 |
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