Great Britain. Foreign Office - General correspondence Pacific Islands [FO 58] 1824-1905

PRO 1509(part)-1539A, 2884(part)-2894
Status: unavailable

fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

432213

2 microfilm reels 35 mm

Subjects range from British colonial policy in the Pacific and relations with independent island governments to annexation of territory by European powers, particularly including the annexation of the Sandwich Islands. Correspondence includes Foreign Office instructions to consular representations and despatches concerning missionary activity, attacks on British residents, petitions from native chiefs, trade, signing of Treaty of Waitangi, and correspondence with Tahiti consulate before 1843

Original held by the National Archives (Great Britain), formerly the Public Record Office, London.

Refer to the National Library of Australia’s AJCP Portal (https://www.nla.gov.au/content/australian-joint-copying-project) for information on Australian Joint Copying Project reels digitised in 2019/20
National Library of Australia holds microfilm master
Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the Library of New South Wales
All pieces is class have been filmed, but pieces 94-322 not included in Australian Joint Copying Project: held at reels G1672-1791, National Library of Australia, and pieces 94-339 at reels FM 4/797-923 at Mitchell Library
Australian Joint Copying Project handbook. Part 5 : Foreign Office - class and piece list, p. 80-82
Public Record Office FO 58
Original held by Public Record Office, London
More detailed list for pieces 1-8- available in Mitchell Library Reading