Title: FO 738 Foreign Office
Description: This index allows identification of specific material relating to a country, person or subject between 1891 and 1905 in the Registers of General Correspondence found in the series FO 566, using the indexing created by the staff of the Foreign Office for this purpose. Not all the correspondence to which they refer was sent for preservation to The National Archives so some index and register entries refer to documents which no longer exist. Each entry in the index provides a year and a page reference for the relevant FO 566 Register. Using this information, a researcher can identify the relevant Register by year, and find information on the author, despatch number, and subject of the item by looking for the corresponding printed page number in FO 566. The information from the Register can then be used to find the item itself within FO 17. This series is composed of photographic copies of the volumes of FO 804.
Subjects: Sources, Foreign relations, History, Politics and government, Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain
Places: Great Britain, China
Time periods: 19th century